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Prologue 

“A man s religion ” says Tolstoi, “is the relation which he 
believes himself to bear to the endless universeThis being 
true, the soul sets out on a solitary Quest to explore and 
find this relation. Every soul has its Quest, its search for the 
Holy Grail, or vivifying Cup, whatever folk-lore name we 
may give this search. It is likened unto a pilgrimage to the 
City of God. It is not an earthly city, like Benares, Mecca, 
or Jerusalem, but a city of magic light, which lures the soul 
on in its satisfying quest. 

Strange it is, while on the pilgrimage the soul forgets its 
country and its commonwealth, and as the City is approached, 
other pilgrims are found likewise to have forgotten their na¬ 
tionality even, and their religion, whether Jew, Christian, 
Hindu, or Moslem. Some of these pilgrims have traveled 
with us but an hour on the road, some a day, and a few, per¬ 
haps, many days. Some of the pilgrims have passed beyond 
us with a smile and a beckon, passed on to the Holy City. 
Those who have traveled long with us have become our com¬ 
mon friends, for we have found they have had similar dangers, 
privations, and weariness, and the friendship grows stronger 
as we approach the Holy City. 

We have journeyed in the night-time and been guided by 

the stars, and we have consulted each other concerning the 

path we should take, and our stars have been bright signals 

pointing the direction. We have looked together for the 

new horn of the Moon, and we have waited for Old Sol to 

open the windows of the heavens, when the birds would 

offer their morning song. We have watched Spring come, 

sheltering the new buds of the fig tree. In the evening, on 

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iv Prologue 

the desert, we would talk and exchange experiences about 
our journey to the city, and wondered if the same griefs and 
pleasures had been the lot of those who had reached the City 
before us. 

Yes, we were friends all with one Quest, and we recog¬ 
nized our Eternal Father as our Friend, for we were all 
traveling to His City as His children, and so we were all 
brothers. We would sing together, and dream together, and 
discuss at times the beauties of our Magic City. 

“O spiritual pilgrim, rise: the night has grown her single horn, 
The voices of the souls unborn are half-a-dream with Paradise. 

To Mecca thou hast turned in prayer with aching heart and eyes 
that burn: 

Ah, Hajji, whither wilt thou turn when thou art there, when thou 
art there? 

God be thy guide from camp to camp: God be thy shade from 
well to well; 

God grant beneath the desert stars thou hear the Prophet's camel- 
bell. 

And, son of Islam, it may be, that thou shalt learn at journey's 
end 

IVho walks thy garden eve on eve, and bows his head, and calls 
thee Friend. 

In the center of this pan-cosmos is the Garden of Paradise; 
in the center of Paradise is the soul of man, the germ of life, 
eternally united in God. If this study helps the pilgrim to 
clear the path from troublesome undergrowths, and quickens 
into more direct expression the soul's idealism and sense of 
beauty, our task will be full of reward. 

COULSON TURNBULL. 


Pasadena, California, 
May 24th, 1923. 



INTRODUCTION 


These studies were given in lectures and later 
written in response to the wishes of many stu¬ 
dents in many lands. It is happily surprising 
how earnest is the student who catches a new 
glimpse of an old forgotten truth; what a joy 
to delve into the tomes of ancient fragments, to 
decipher again the hieroglyphs of the past and 
rediscover arcane teachings from the Alexan¬ 
drines, the Babylonians, the Gnostics of Greece, 
the Hebrews of Palestine, and the early Chris¬ 
tian Fathers. 

The time is here and ripe for added knowl¬ 
edge. We are demanding a reinterpretation 
where error exists even if it shakes our concepts 
of a living faith. We have a right to master 
the deeper mysteries of spiritual creation,, for 
this world is a spiritual mystery, showing a 
divine order which enters into every act and 
thought of man. 

During the recent war we were not a little 
astounded with the letters of ministers and chap¬ 
lains published in our Press, stating the non¬ 
belief of the soldiers, not unbelief alone, but a 


VI 


Introduction 


non-belief in the formal teachings of our dif¬ 
ferent Christian groups. The letters pointed to 
the fact that there is an increasing host of unbe¬ 
lievers in Christian churches and Christendom 
generally. Yet there never was a time of greater 
humanitarian and philanthropic work in the 
churches. It is not that religion itself is dying, 
but traditional theology and faiths are waning, 
and the confusion is pathetic. We cannot blame 
the layman and we must be sparing of criticism 
or blame upon the Church, whose privilege it 
is to interpret and direct religious thought. If 
religion comes into its own, which it will, we 
must have a broader faith and a reinterpretation 
of the basis of our creeds founded in truth, 
though hidden in myth, symbol and allegory. 

This reinterpretation will come, as in the past, 
from the same source of inspiration—God's 
beauteous Word in His Works. 

It is almost a platitude to state that the religion 
of the future should satisfy alike the scientist 
and include all his facts in science, all the find¬ 
ings of the philosopher, and the contemplative 
wisdom of the mystic. The spirit of man requires 
all his faculties and all his acquired truth to 
interpret himself and God fearlessly. 

The human, from the infant to the aged, is al¬ 
ways in love, whether with a person, a god, a bau- 


Introduction 


• • 
VII 

ble, or an abstract ideal.) It is an eternal wish 
of the soul to express love in truth and beauty. 
The pilgrim adores and worships atmany shrines 
in his wanderings and search for the Holy Grail. 

Man “was not formed of the dust alone, but 
of the Divine Spirit.” He is stamped with the 
Divine Seal and fashioned according to the 
archetypal Logos. God sends forth the knowl¬ 
edge of His law through this Logos to meet and 
answer the prayers of man and satisfy and 
quicken his powers of apprehending. 

This new old study of the Logos manifest in 
the macrocosm is awakening man to a principle 
of knowledge and a revelation of Providence. 
It is a priceless treasure, for in its study life 
becomes a beautiful stream of interpretation and 
an enjoyment of light. The Logos is and inter¬ 
prets cosmic force; it is life, sensation; it is 
man’s reason; it is his prescience, intuition and 
inspiration. The Logos is the archetype, orig¬ 
inal pattern of all created things. It over¬ 
shadows all minds. It creates, advances, and 
evolves man. The Logos is the new old text¬ 
book, the new old Bible, immanent in the world 
of form and energy, revealing the mode of the 
Divine Spirit, bringing to man a part of the 
Divine essence and to nature the cosmic princi¬ 
ples of order, harmony and beauty. The Pilgrim 


Introduction 


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vm 

on the Path communes and converses with the 
Logos in secret, a communion which quickens 
every faculty and gives true ideas about God, 
man, and nature. A student entering the mys¬ 
teries of the Word, comes back a joyful, peace¬ 
ful convert. 



Chapter 


CONTENTS 


Frontispiece. 

Prologue .iii 

Introduction .v 

I The Logos.11 

II The Kingdom of the Soul ... 16 

III Intuition and Motion .... 22 

IV The Mystic Macrocosm .... 30 

V The Spirit of Venus. 41 

VI The Spirit of Mercury .... 47 

VII The Mystical Sun and Moon . . 52 

VIII The Spirit of Mars. 63 

IX The Spirit of Jupiter.68 

X The Spirit of Saturn. 73 

XI Uranus the Mystical.80 

XII The Spirit of Neptune .... 88 

XIII Hebrew Numbers : The Pyramid . 97 

XIV The Soul in Action. 106 

XV The Christ Logos. 112 

XVI The Cross. 120 

XVII The Spiritual Horoscope . . . 130 - 

XVIII Health, Disease, Service .... 142 

XIX Cantate Domino . 151 


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THE GNOSTIC CROSS 
(Codex c Brucianus) 

















I 

THE LOGOS 


Get thee out of thy country, 
from thy father’s house 
unto a land I will shew thee. 

—Genesis, XII, 1. 

HE mysteries of the great religions cen¬ 
tered in one drama, the chief actor of 
which was the soul. It was character¬ 
ized like one standing with his back to 
the light contemplating the shadows of 
the objects and supposing them real. Gods, 
stars, dreams, pictures, and symbols were all 
brought into play in this one great drama to 
impress upon the initiate that the soul was the 
selfhood, apart from, yet including all objects; 
that he cannot view the universe without seeing 
himself; that the laws of the universe were the 
same within and around himself; that the mate¬ 
rial world with its changing forms was bound 
to a spiritual world through a divine energy. 
This energy is the Verbum, Logos or Word. It 
is the ordering power of God, seen and unseen, 
create and uncreate, masculine and feminine. 

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The Solar Logos 

The Logos portrays the working of the spirit 
and for convenience of study let us call the 
Logos, two, the manifest and the unmanifest; 
the unmanifest as a world of unseen wisdom, as 
a world of consciousness; and the manifest as 
the world of nature. The unmanifest Logos in 
all Scriptures is termed the Father, sometimes 
the Father-Wisdom or the Father-Mind, while 
the manifest is called the Mother, the Spouse, 
the Virgin-Mother. These two halves joined 
together are symbolized by the circle with a 
diameter, so ©. The unmanifest Logos holds 
within itself the ideal of all forms, holds every 
past memory of all things and all beings. It is 
the third aspect of the One, a revealing of the 
spirit. In it is the archetype or original pattern 
of all things. 

The Wisdom-Logos communicates the mem¬ 
ory of every event into the Logos manifest or 
into nature through vibration, love, or attrac¬ 
tion. The two Logi are One as the Father is 
One. “Who mad’st all things by thy Word 
(logos), and by thy wisdom thou form’st man.” 

Consciousness is hidden in the uncreate Logos 
and is known to man through the law of vibra¬ 
tion. Vibrations change according to the will, 
need, and desire, and as man advances in con- 


The Logos 13 

sciousness mental vibrations are finer than those 
of physical forms. 

God has given to man through the Logos 
manifest, an interpretation of His creative en¬ 
ergies, these are alike in the macrocosm or solar- 
man as in the microcosm of cosmic man. To in¬ 
terpret the Logos requires the science of mathe¬ 
matics which is the science of infallibility. “God 
geometrizes.” Pure science and true religion 
should not be apart. Such a separation, as we 
see it, produces an artificial gulf, a cold intel¬ 
lectuality on one hand and an irresponsible 
fanaticism on the other. 

Mysticism also demands a creative imagina¬ 
tion which is inherent in the human family. 
This imagination leads to an intuition which 
later stimulates and disciplines the intellect and 
reason. Mysticism deals with the Logos, the 
macrocosm, and its reflection in the microcosm. 
If mysticism held nothing but tradition and 
myth, man could not nourish the deep hunger 
of his soul, he would flounder in fancy and su¬ 
perstition and the soul would be nothing more 
than perishable matter. 

The microcosmic man is in touch with all 
life, all ideals, all wisdom. “Eye hath not seen 
nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the 
heart of man to conceive the things God hath 


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The Solar Logos 


prepared for them that love Him,” love here, 
meaning the energies which are rightfully and 
righteously used. The knowledge of how to use 
these energies is not beyond man, for truth like 
nature is a friend to man. 

Nature amongst the Gnostics was called God’s 
vicegerent. We are constantly reminded by 
these old Greek thinkers that the universe is in 
ourselves, that God’s image was the universe and 
that God created man in his own image. So 
the divine drama of the human soul is pictured 
in the heavens, teaching how he shall evolve and 
complete his immortal form in the given cycle 
for its development. 

Man is divinity in its fullest expression, the 
universe is divinity in a multitude of expres¬ 
sions, all sustained by the same ideal Logos or 
Word. The ideal Logos becoming incarnate is 
life; it vitalizes the mental body and therefore 
the physical body of man. Every living form is 
the external index of this incarnate ideal. God 
makes no failures; we see no cosmic failure, or 
the Divine Mind would be a failure and the 
facts of creation out of harmony with each 
other. 

The cosmos is a reflection of the Divine Mind, 
and man’s mind is the individual center of its 
operation. 


The Logos 


15 


To summarize then, God through the Wis¬ 
dom-Logos is the Substance of the manifest 
Logos in all its variety and multiplicity of 
forms, angel, angle-worm, star-dust or man. 


II 

THE KINGDOM OF THE SOUL 

Heaven born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; 
Beyond the visible world she soars to seek 
(For what delights the sense is false and weak) 

Ideal form, the universal mold. 

— Wordsworth. 

T HE Persians had a wise saying that man 
should render homage to his soul, for with¬ 
out this homage he would not develop his 
powers evenly. It was a part of the initiate’s 
education that he should dwell upon the things 
which are not of sense. He should contemplate 
his type, the higher type of the Great Mind 
“upon whose pattern we are built and sus¬ 
tained.” 

Soul is the link between the universal spirit 
and matter. It is of the eternal and is the chan- 
nelhood through which spirit becomes form. 
The soul does not depend upon matter, but uses 
matter to complete an organism fit for its activ¬ 
ities while in form. 

All souls are created equal, they are born of 
Him whose law is just. We must not believe in 
the fatal presumption that some are born strong 
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The Kingdom of the Soul 17 

and fair, some with genius and beauty, and some 
selfish and cowardly, for all are of the eternal 
One who does not favor one, or disfavors an¬ 
other. He does not change his plan of help or 
salvation. His law is unchangeable and never 
in conflict with any soul. He shows no par¬ 
tiality, no favor, no wrath to any one soul. 

Ah! A question you ask: Why is one born 
in the gutter and another in the lap of luxury? 
This we shall answer: it is the law of spiritual 
evolution that no errors or failures are ac¬ 
cepted. Every soul works out its own salvation, 
but always under the grace and the mystery of 
the Logos. Each soul is in the place it has 
earned, there being no such thing as a misplaced 
soul or a misplaced atom. The law of God is 
as just to the lowliest insect as to the noblest man. 
The last great Initiate summed this up in: 
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that also 

SHALL HE REAP.” 

The soul turns to matter and like Janus of old 
is dual-faced. When beholding matter alone 
the soul sees shadow, change; but when it turns 
its face to the spirit, all is life with under¬ 
standing. 

The physical body, tabernacle or temple in 
which the soul acts is the epitome of all worlds 
and all things. It is the focusing or condens- 


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The Solar Logos 


ing of innumerable magnetic currents. The 
body cannot reveal through its senses alone the 
cause of its appearance (birth) or its disappear¬ 
ance (death), or the reason of its suffering; for 
it has no memory of itself, memory being stored 
up in the soul. 

The initiate must rise above the bondage of 
the physical body, and the elements which com¬ 
pose it. He must rule, transmute and use these 
elements and not allow himself to be ruled by 
them. This is spoken of in the language of the 
initiate as being “tempted of the Devil.” Con¬ 
quering matter, he is “led up”—a mark of Di¬ 
vine favor. He communes with the Higher- 1 
Self or the soul is liberated from the temptation 
of the spirit of error. He is free in the law or 
as we have it in Corinthians: “Now the Lord 
(Law and Logos) is that Spirit, and where the 
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” We are 
likened unto children when in the bondage of 
physical elements. (Galatians IV., 3, 9.) “But 
now after that ye have known God, or rather 
are known of God, how turn ye again to the 
weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye 
desire again to be in bondage?” Notice in 
Matthew IV how the initiate meets each temp¬ 
tation by an affirmative thought. 



The Kingdom of the Soul 19 

When the soul or selfhood turns only to mat¬ 
ter, the mind is in bondage. He cannot correct 
his impressions or desires. He misses the source 
of light. Under all phenomena then, stands the 
soul, for man is geometrized by the Logos, or 
written word of the heavens. 

The first commandment given to man is to 
order and name the animals. The central truth 
is to seek first the kingdom of heaven, or again, 
the “Father which art in heaven” (within). All 
needful knowledge is added to him who seeks to 
subdue or put in order his animal passions and 
proclivities; who seeks first the kingdom of 
heaven, knowing that the foundation of his body, 
its cell life, all its physiological and psycholog¬ 
ical functions silently work in a power derived 
from the Logos. 

The soul of man receives engraftments from 
the spirit of the Logos as it moves over the face 
of the earth. In its wandering, the body is 
termed the tabernacle, but when perfected, it is 
a living temple of God in its fullest capacities— 
physical, intellectual, spiritual—a temple con¬ 
taining the tablets of stone, the rod of Aaron, the 
pot of manna; symbols of the law of physical 
growth (stones), intellectual development (pot 
of manna), and the rod of discretion giving a 




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The Solar Logos 


hint of the spiritual perceptions to be fostered in 
the physical body. 

It is in this body the soul must learn the 
source of its strength, must partake of the Divine 
Bread constantly being broken to feed the chil¬ 
dren of men while in the shadow or spiritual 
darkness (Egypt). 

The initiate is one who partakes consciously 
of this pure substance through prayer and con¬ 
templation. Prayer is an intense desire to free 
the powers of the soul that it may respond and 
receive its answer through the workings of the 
Logos. The one grand prayer of the initiate is 
ever the same—an understanding heart to know 
God, His law and plan. The mind thus held to 
truth through this intense desire, all words be¬ 
come effective. 

The spiritual word or truth gives healing to 
the sick. It robs the body of the illusions of self. 
Prayer vitalizes and spiritualizes desire. It 
gives the soul power over the curious image¬ 
making faculty of the objective mind. This 
mind objective, is deceived by its image-making 
faculty, setting up false gods and false beliefs. 
Prayer purifies thought. Thought mixes with 
desire, desire mixes with the breath, and the 
breath with the blood which feeds and sustains 
the physical body—body, blood, breath, desire, 



The Kingdom of the Soul 21 

thought, will, soul, Logos, spirit—to reverse the 
order. 

An understanding heart gives the true desire 
to express the One will. It fills the head with 
light. 

“ ‘Our Father’ (within), I will make holy thy 
Name or ordering power (logos). Bring thy 
kingdom into my terrestrial consciousness, feed 
my soul with thy Divine Substance hidden in all 
existence that I may forgive those who trespass 
against me and thy law, and so, free the creative 
power in my soul.” 


Ill 

INTUITION AND MOTION 

Intuition is that mode of mind whereby, after exer¬ 
cising itself in an outward direction as intellect, in order 
to obtain cognition of phenomena it returns toward its 
center as intuition and by ascertaining the essential idea 
of the fact apprehended through the senses, completes the 
process of its thought. 

—Anna Kingsford: The Perfect Way. 

T HE mind of man is divided into two planes 
of action, the objective and the subjective, 
the intellect and the intuition. The subjective 
mind is linked to the primordial source of all, 
while the objective mind is relative and evolved. 
The subjective mind has no brain or form, it is of 
the spirit and, like water flowing into a vessel, is 
directed by the objective mind during our wak¬ 
ing consciousness. The process of thought, 
though, is not complete if one plane of con¬ 
sciousness is used. We must learn to use the in¬ 
tuitive or subjective process. 

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Intuition is also the clean memories gathered 
while the soul has associated itself in various 
forms leading up to man. We know the soul is 
subject to the interior conditions of earth that it 
may ascend, know, and create. Knowledge of 
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Intuition and Motion 


23 


the past is preserved in the permanent region of 
our nature, and revealed in the soul’s intuition. 
It is a blank plane of consciousness to many, to 
others it is just awakening, but to those who 
have corrected desires and physical perceptions 
it is a consciousness which leads to illumination. 

Every clean memory enters the soul or “ark.” 
All experiences of the past are sifted to obtain 
these clean memories. Buried in the subjective 
mind of the animal we call it instinct; in man, 
reminiscence. It is the source or center of our 
nature, and from its intuition we recover lost or 
forgotten memories of the soul and which the in¬ 
tellect cannot reveal. 

It is not a knowledge externally inserted in 
the soul, yet the soul uses the objective mind to 
record the succession of ideas gained in the phe¬ 
nomenal life. 

Ages of the soul’s memories have passed, not 
recorded in the intellect, but concealed in the 
Logos and revealed to the soul through the 
Logos. 

Intuition is the mathematics of the soul, 
MATHESIS, a science which helps us to recol¬ 
lect. A similar word is Matthew, a disciple of 
the Master, meaning inward teacher. 'This sci¬ 
ence of mathesis records and holds the lessons, 
pictures of changing life intertwined in the 


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The Solar Logos 


mazy evolution of worlds, showing every step in 
evolution. It is the mysterious, hidden spiritual 
faculty which brings forth, reveals, and illu¬ 
mines. 

Man intellectually is not fit for communion 
with the inner-self while he feels himself to be 
a fragment of a whole instead of a unity with 
the whole. The Divine powers are concealed 
in the intuition, number, the secret of lives, the 
rounds of a soul, the law of its birth and death, 
its relation to the macrocosm. All these are re¬ 
vealed through the intuition. It is the mind of 
the soul. 

Sometimes we pass through a period of doubt 
or agnosticism as we break away from supersti¬ 
tions, fears, creeds. This is before we have 
learned that the soul is the Divine-Impersonal, 
Personified. Getting away from doubt it is well 
to ask seriously: What would man do without 
the Divine Law? What is the purpose of my 
being? Why this motion, this changing world? 

If I cannot satisfy these doubts, I am a shut- 
in, groping personality, dissatisfied with myself. 

Intuition reveals to us the mode, norm or plan, 
how the spirit through the soul comes into form 
and growth. This is through motion, which 
shows the changing mind or the Divine Mind in 


Intuition and Motion 25 

change . Why this whirring Verbum or Logos, 
this motion? 

Motion gives to matter a new spring of con¬ 
sciousness, it prepares matter for an advance in 
the manifestation of the Logos. Without motion 
we have no growth, and Deity reveals His law 
through motion. Each cell, atom, soul must re¬ 
ceive an engraftment of the Divine Mind before 
a new motion can be set up. 

There are seven subtle motions in the physical 
body of man, from his appearance into form 
(birth) to his death. The important motion 
which concerns us now is called the synthetic 
motion which gives to every form a design as 
well as a direction. This design is ideal, arche¬ 
typal, God-like. Next is centrifugal motion 
from the center of the human outward, and cen¬ 
tripetal from the outward to the center. Be¬ 
tween these two motions—the centripetal and 
the centrifugal—there is a static motion which 
balances the two and brings into visibility the 
invisible. 

Static motion balances the centripetal and 
centrifugal. It is in the static motion we re¬ 
ceive power and knowledge from the soul. The 
static motion is accelerated when we learn to let 
go the things and ideas which bind us. 


26 


The Solar Logos 


In the doubting or agnostic state, in the state 
of non-belief or indifference, mental inhibitions 
become hindrances binding us, and we find these 
conditions conquering us, making us a slave. 
“Loose him and let him go” are the words of 
the last great Initiate. Assert from time to time, 
“I am created in Thine Image.” Link oneself 
to the parental mind, become silent, static. 

Could we watch our globe evolving from in¬ 
organic to organic, from nescience to om¬ 
niscience, we should see every step, every new 
motion was the result of a previous static mo¬ 
tion, a state preparatory to receiving a new en- 
graftment. This changing life of ours is to 
reveal new characteristics, new harmonies, and 
new powers in the manifest Logos. 

Motion prepares matter for a widening, 
broadening consciousness. All creation changes 
that it shall express greater beauties of the One 
Consciousness. 

Animal, primitive life receives external im¬ 
pacts to move it on, man also, until he comes 
into self-realization when he can truly say, “In 
Him we live and move and have our being.” 
Or, as Buddha said, “That art Thou.” 

Man contains all the universes, systems, 
planets, and globes within himself. He is the 
microcosm of the macrocosm, partaking of all 


Intuition and Motion 27 

life. The soul inhabits many globes, and ca¬ 
reens through worlds of experience and draws 
unto itself a gem-producing idealism from every 
form of matter. From the lowest to the highest, 
he partakes of its rhythm, harmony, or song. 
Watch the changing phases in matter, and we 
will see the same changes in man’s conscious¬ 
ness, the beginning of prophecy. It is the old 
proverb, “As in the great, so in the small; as in 
the outer, so in the inner, there is nothing great 
and nothing small.” 

The law of the Lord is one. God has placed 
in man the Eternal Word by which he and the 
universe are upheld. Let me quote an Arabian 
of the mystical school of Alexandria (Alipilli), 
an advanced philosopher and mystic, who said: 
“I admonish thee that desirest to dive into the 
inmost parts of nature, if that which thou seek- 
est thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never 
find it without thee. The universal orb of the 
world contains not so great mysteries and excel¬ 
lencies as a little man, formed by God in His 
own image. And he who desires the primacy 
among the students of nature, will nowhere find 
a greater or better field of study than himself. 
So, with a loud voice I proclaim: O, Man, 
Know Thyself! In thee is hidden the treasure 
of treasures.” 


28 


The Solar Logos 


Many steps, many lives the soul takes in ac¬ 
quiring a knowledge of its divinity. The human 
soul is the sum-total of all planes of conscious- 1 
ness below it. 

Each lesson or step we shall find a system of 
numbers, in this case seven. The soul learns 
form, growth, instinct, reason, intuition, illumi¬ 
nation, and the T am Thou.’ Or we might state 
it otherwise; the electronic, atomic, molecular, 
cellular, organic, human, and again the Di¬ 
vine I. 

Every growth stamps its lesson and law into 
the soul. When that lesson is perfected in its 
particular function, all the elements, mineral, 
plant, animal, are remembered by the soul in 
each step of evolution. In each step he has had 
to subdue, transform, redeem and use. 

Let us again state that intuition is the inward 
teacher drawing every memory of the soul from 
the invisible Logos. Intuition and intellect 
united give the soul a power to demand perfect 
esoteric truths at will. 

The reasoning faculties cannot guide the soul 
far on the path. It is the golden thread of in¬ 
tuition that becomes our servant in a “far off; 
country.” The body becomes specialized to 
higher and higher vibrations through the intui¬ 
tion, which appears when we have that high 


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Intuition and Motion 


29 


courage which can transmute all anger, hate and 
jealousy, or the “Furies,” into a receptive se¬ 
renity. 

We are not always conscious of the guiding 
hand which takes us through a labyrinth of ex¬ 
periences which for a time darken the powers 
of the soul, but the Divine Mind speaking 
through the soul says, “Adam, where art thou?”, 
or as the Lord God says to Abraham, after test¬ 
ing his faith, “This thou shalt sacrifice.” 


IV 

THE MYSTIC MACROCOSM 


As for Truth, it endureth. With Her there is no ac¬ 
ceptance of persons or rewards, but She doeth the things 
which are fust and refraineth from all wicked things. She 
is strength, kingdom, power, and majesty of all ages. 
Blessed be the God of Truth. 

— Esdras. 

M AN, finding himself in a world of things 
and forms, believed himself to be a prod¬ 
uct of such things. Here he was in a world of 
facts, wonderful and awe-inspiring. What had 
those facts to do with his life and happiness? 

He sought to reduce those facts slowly to 
laws, and in so doing, his perception and reason 
were quickened. The more knowledge he 
gained from the physical facts of nature, the 
more he felt himself related to the universe as 
a whole. Deeper laws were discerned and a 
deeper philosophy of life unfolded, bringing 
into play an intuition transcending reason. 

Through intuition he found himself a center 
of all worlds and all things, united to all, and 
saw the cosmos to be a living garment clothing 
the Invisible Soul. In like manner he is favored 


30 


The Mystic Macrocosm 31 

in having a living body wrought in the same 
pattern and drawing life from the same source 
as the cosmic body of the Oversoul. This brings 
a desire to worship the marvelous invisible 
power, which softens the harsh modes of mind 
and brings forth the pure intuition unchecked 
by false imaginations, fears, and anxieties. 

Man is born in the image of God and of the 
royal line of the Christs. He becomes a 
Prophet, a Priest, and a King; having a strong, 
pure will (king), must interpret the symbols of 
the macrocosm (priest), and judge their mo¬ 
tions and laws aright (prophet). The true 
priest should be able to interpret the spiritual 
meaning of all nature; in understanding he 
should be where the “above and the below” 
meet. As God’s dress is the universe, so is man’s 
dress. He corresponds in color, number, and 
vibration to the solar system at the moment of 
birth. He is clothed in the Zodiac. 

The Zodiac is a picure of the garment of 
flesh worn by the soul during its earthly peregri¬ 
nations. The Zodiac is the law which deter¬ 
mines the color of the astral vibrations, the note, 
or number of the soul, and how it shall use its 
Divinity in physical matter, either for disci¬ 
pline, service, or both. 


32 


The Solar Logos 


The Zodiac is the clock of destiny, the teacher 
of law. The Great Symbolist shows in His sym¬ 
bols that the mystic life of the soul is like unto 
the Over-Soul. These silent teachers, the stars, 
tell how mind is embodied in matter for a time 
and conditioned by matter until mind shall rise 
above matter and control it. It is the Zodiac 
which teaches this law. 

Man is born of dust, his earthly Mother, he 
is also born of the unseen Father in a world of 
wisdom and causes. The growing mind of man 
is inseparable from the universe. The Zodiac 
teaches primarily how the spirit, through the 
Logos, becomes matter. Matter and force are 
not created nor destroyed, but in a ceaseless mo¬ 
tion and transformation bringing about all 
changes. 

The starry firmament is a subject to which no 
one can be indifferent, and of which no one 
ought to be ignorant who aspires to the dignity 
of a rational thinking being. We instinctively 
turn our faces for an upward view at the close 
of the day, praying for an enlarged understand¬ 
ing, for the heart of man needs a nobler lan¬ 
guage than mere words. His love desires to 
encircle the universe, and to gaze at night into 
the vast starry solitudes satisfies him. 


The Mystic Macrocosm 33 

The Greeks symbolized the play of the gods 
with the cosmos bringing the soul into matter. 
Bacchus, we read, in his sport with the cosmos 
had a dice, a spinning top, a ball, apples, a 
magic wheel, a mirror, and a fleece. The magic 
wheel represented the building of the universe; 
the mirror showed matter to Vulcan who, when 
he saw himself reflected, became a partial soul; 
the dice, a city four-square, also symbolizing the 
four great cycles in the heavens, the four points 
of the cross, and the four seasons; the fleece was 
the robe of initiation; the spinning top or pine 
cone with the flying wheels like a spiral whirl, 
represented the forces of creation playing 
around the pineal gland. Many, indeed, are the 
symbols of these different creative energies 
termed the gods. 

The first sign of the Zodiac, Aries (T) 
corresponding to the head of the man, is the seat 
of consciousness, the symbol of which is a Hare 
or Ram fleeing away from the darkness and 
looking backward. It is the place of exaltation 
of the Sun, turning his back on the darkness and 
crossing or passing over the line, bringing new 
light and life. 

The next symbol is that of the Bull, Taurus 
( 8 ) falling into the mud with bended knees. 
It stands for the motions and emotions around 


34 


The Solar Logos 


and in the human soul. In Egypt the sacred 
Bulls, Apis and Mnevis, denoted the creative 
spirit manifesting Itself on earth. 

Gemini (n) the Twins, represents the Di¬ 
vine Substance, Mind, evolving through con¬ 
sciousness and motion (Aries and Taurus). 
That is why we give the planet Mercury as its 
ruler, the planet of intellect and perception. 

CANCER (ss), the breasts and thorax of the 
grand Solar-Man, denotes warmth, nourish¬ 
ment, motherhood, the breasts, and the Breath; 
all under the symbol of the Crab or the Egyp¬ 
tian Scarabeus, which is like an English rose- 
beetle. 

LEO (£b), the Lion, corresponds to the heart, 
back, and blood. Being the home of the Sun it 
is one of the strongest signs of the Zodiac. Blood 
carries the psychic life-giving principle. To 
shed the blood means to pour out the spirit of 
life that a changed condition or redemption may 
ensue. The circulation saves the body from 
death and carries innumerable magnetic cur¬ 
rents. The Leo type, Judah, is a person of great 
magnetic power whose words from the soul 
(prayer) have great power. 

VIRGO (iTR), the Virgin who holds in her 
hand a branch of ripe fruit or the Apples of 


The Mystic Macrocosm 35 

Para, represents the productive powers of mat¬ 
ter, the harvesting. The Hebrew name Bethula 
—a Virgin or Branch—refers to the mundane 
harvest and corresponds to the digestive tract. 
These people, as a rule, have great discrimina¬ 
tive powers, are very orderly; in fact, the whole 
sign is associated with Fofm and the creative 
principles of Form brought together. 

LIBRA ( —), the Scales, correspond to the' 
kidneys. The ancient Hebrew name of Libra 
was Mozanaim. This is the sign the Sun makes 
his descent. It is the sign of equalization, bal¬ 
ance and desire, full of soul power, love, and 
Justice. --_y 

SCORPIO ( TT l) is the symbol of conflict, 
sex, earthy generation, ruling sex and desire. 
When control is accomplished the interior mys¬ 
tic sense is awakened. The symbol of the Scor¬ 
pion or Snake denotes one who speaks not the 
Logos clearly or hisses, crawling on the earth, 
winding and curving or missing (Sin—CHAT- 
TAH). The creative principle is a mystic 
power demanding truth and love, and is symbol¬ 
ized by a straight line. 

SAGITTARIUS ( t ), the Arrow, is the next 
sign, the Hebrew name of which is Kesith, 
meaning an Arrow or quickness. Another sym- 



36 


The Solar Logos 


bol is the Centaur, the man rising out of the 
horse or united to the animal; or, the Divine 
man rising out of animal-man. The Sagittarian 
type is quick to perceive, to act, and to prophesy. 
It is the Thought sign of the twelve and is asso¬ 
ciated with Aries—Consciousness, and Leo— 
Blood. 

CAPRICORN (tt?), the knees of the grand 
Solar-Man, is the Kid, Gedi, the common 
Scapegoat—“riding the goat.” The Sun is here 
reborn after being in the grave three days. New 
life and vigor and lengthened day in the North¬ 
ern hemisphere is the result. This type of char¬ 
acter is very ambitious. The sign is always asso¬ 
ciated with Taurus and Virgo, being of the same 
elemental nature. Capricorn is the sign of In¬ 
dividuality. 

AQUARIUS (^), the eleventh sign of the 
Zodiac, is the Water Urn or Delhi in Hebrew, 
signifying spiritual baptism. It is the Soul sign 
of the twelve, and is associated with Libra—De¬ 
sire, and Gemini—Substance. It is a sign of 
Association. 

PISCES (^), the Fishes or feet, is the secret 
symbol of spiritual fecundity or spiritual quick¬ 
ening. The Fish here meaning that which rises 
out of the unconscious (water) into the con- 




The Mystic Macrocosm 37 

scious. The five loaves and two fishes denote the 
five senses and the two superior faculties in man. 
Pisces rules the Will or the soul in action. It is 
associated with Scorpio—Sex, and Cancer— 
Breath. The breath receiving the first action of 
will. 

Thus we have in the Zodiac twelve character¬ 
istics corresponding to the twelve signs. The 
sign ascending indicates the dominant character¬ 
istic. The very names of the patriarch Jacob or 
Israel, correspond to these characteristics. The 
names of the Zodiac in Hebrew are simply the 
names of the twelve sons of Jacob. 

Now, Jacob in Hebrew signifies an arch or 
vault, and Israel “that which is put in order by 
the power of God.” The great structure of the 
blue sky is set in order in the perfected mind 
of man, arranging his brain faculties in order, 
endowing each structure with a certain distinct 
faculty, concealed in the names of the Children 
of Jacob, revealed a little in the blessings of 
Jacob and those of Moses. (Read Gen. 49.) 

Reuben, “Thou art my first born, my might, 
my first born, the beginning of my strength, the 
excellency of power.” Reuben means that which 
is built up to see or perception, the first and fun¬ 
damental faculty of mind in different stages, 
orders, and degrees, of consciousness. 



38 


The Solar Logos 


Simeon, the second son, means to attend, to un¬ 
derstand, a hearkening, always the second factor 
following perception. 

Levi is the third son. Brethren, are Simeon 
and Levi. The third faculty of mind means to 
combine, to couple, and associate. The tribe of 
Levi were priests to present the forms, rituals, 
and symbols suggestive of truths which should 
remind man of his dependence of God. The 
priest should by voice, dress, action, and symbol 
interpret and measure the days, seasons, and 
works of Divinity. 

Judah, the next order, signifies to show forth, 
to point out, to manifest, and praise. From Ju¬ 
dah shall come out a perfect soul, a Messiah. 
Spiritual things flow into the soul from Judah. 
Oratory, praise, prayer, and song flow from the 
(Leo) tribe of Judah. “The scepter shall not 
depart from Judah.” 

Dan was the fifth son. Judgment is denoted 
by this word, determination, and decision; to 
judge. 

Napthali, the sixth son, signifies to combine, 
to combat, opposition, the organic principle in 
man, secret sin in which he wants to rest, so 
opposes his onward growth. 

Gad, the seventh son, means to labor, to 
pierce, to penetrate, to form and cut. It is the 


The Mystic Macrocosm 39 

function of memory, both of soul in its birth- 
fashioning and the intellect in its reasoning. 

Asher, the eighth son, means to guide, direct, 
right choice by which volitions are expressed 
and motive powers are engendered. 

Issachar, the ninth son, means a laborer, he 
who works for compensation only, or the faculty 
of selfishness, “became a servant unto tribute.” 

Zebulon, the tenth son, signifies conjugal love, 
to revolve, turn, the faculty of all social rela¬ 
tions, “a haven for ships.” 

Joseph signifies to add, collect, and sustain; 
note the relation of Joseph in Egypt and the ex¬ 
planation of the nature of Joseph, the earthly 
father of Jesus. 

Benjamin, the twelfth, the product of sor¬ 
row, labor, cultivation, conscientiousness, or Be- 
noni, born into the world through great suffer¬ 
ing and pain. 

When these faculties are brought together in 
proper function and action, the circle of under¬ 
standing is complete, according to the likeness 
of God, symbolized as a circle, o. The assign¬ 
ment of different parts of the body to the rule of 
separate constellations is in perfect harmony 
with the correspondence which exists between 
physical function and special faculties of the 
mind. Neglect one faculty and negation or dis- 


40 


The Solar Logos 


ease follows, which will be seen by the study of 
mathematics and motions of the solar man. We 
cannot break this law, for we have to harvest our 
own thoughts; the harvest or season is deter¬ 
mined beforehand and can be measured, or this 
is the science discovered and rediscovered in dif¬ 
ferent ages, seen in the writings of pure astro- 
logia. The religion of the ancient priests were 
the truths of the science of the Solar Man or 
Logos. Remnants of these rituals remain to¬ 
day, many of which are distorted and are wisely 
called superstition. But what is a superstition 
but the shadow of a truth or a misdirected 
truth? 


) 


V 

THE SPIRIT OF VENUS 

2 


For wisdom, is more moving than any motion: she 
passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her 
pureness. For she is the breath of the power of God; and 
a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty: 
therefore can no defiled thing fall unto her. 

—Wisdom of Solomon. 

A S THE soul descends into matter it re¬ 
hearses its past experiences and renews its 
hopes and purposes. From the nature of the 
Logos it recovers the memory of its law of phys¬ 
ical birth. It descends and surrounds itself with 
certain planetary vibrations which discipline, 
nourish, and advance it in its lessons of creation, 
and God. 

The soul is dominated by matter, we have 
said, until matter responds to the will of the 
soul. She is the center of all cosmic forces and 
interprets these forces according to the will and 
the desire of the individual. The soul is the link 
between the spirit and physical form. 

Soul is the image of the Eternal, the spiritual 
germ unfolding in man. Little by little the soul 
power rises above and modifies the will of the 

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42 The Solar Logos 

individual. As this consciousness ascends, the 
individual learns to act from a center within, 
which is the soul, instead of being tossed and 
swayed by impacts from the circumference 
without. 

In the earliest stages of evolution, which we 
might call the Adamic period, the physical 
senses are first opened; and so, much of his wor¬ 
ship is due to the wonder and awe of the phys¬ 
ical elements. He loves the god of thunder and 
fears the god of lightning. Hercules is his god, 
physical prowess is his delight. Later we find 
him evolving a keener intelligence, and later 
still a spiritual knowledge. 

Consciousness does not vibrate, it is the form 
and the lower mind which vibrates when memo¬ 
ries are recovered. The past and the present are 
merged in the Logos, or the law would be for¬ 
gotten. We are now where the “above and the 
below meet.” 

Clothed with the glorious dress of the cosmos, 
man corresponds in color, number, and vibra¬ 
tion to the same in the solar system at the mo¬ 
ment of birth. This is known to the mystical 
student, for he sees at birth, which the mathe¬ 
matics of nature decide, the purpose of incarna¬ 
tion which is told in degree and sign. 

A map of the heavens, then, is an imprint of 


The Spirit of Venus 43 

the physical sheaths of the body and indicates, 
like a clock, the plane of will and consciousness 
the soul works in through the body. In no way 
must it be understood that the stars, planets, or 
orbs of light, rule or influence the affairs of the 
human. They act as indices, showing how far 
the soul has traveled or has to travel, the 
strength of will, the objective and subjective 
thought, the individuality, the play of finer sub¬ 
stances and motions in the body, the action of 
desire on and in the physical form, the physi¬ 
ology and occupation and the social functionings 
of the soul in the present incarnation. 

Let us study the planet Venus,—purity,— 
whose number is six, and whose homes are Tau¬ 
rus and Libra. Taurus is its physical home, 
Libra the mental and artistic point it loves to 
dwell in. Venus teaches us the harmony in all 
things. She reveals many of the secrets of peri¬ 
odicity when we attune ourselves in a purified 
love. She is called the “Shield of David.” 
Now, David corresponds to the sixth creative 
day in which man discovers he is created in the 
image of God. This discovery only comes 
through real service, and Venus is the planet of 
service, though she has often been called the se¬ 
ducer, entangling us in matter, the creator of 
trouble, strife, and pride. 


44 The Solar Logos 

If we wish to serve the Lower-Self we receive 
sharp impacts from without, if we wish to serve 
the Higher-Self we act from the soul’s center, 
which gives us inspiration, courage, and molds 
the outward disturbances, bringing all into a 
sweet harmony. 

The sign Taurus is a home of Venus and 
shows great indecision in the Taurian type. The 
symbol of Taurus is a bull falling into mud on 
bended knees, an expressive symbol, as we have 
seen, for the soul plunges and struggles aim¬ 
lessly without purpose, it seems, and so, the will 
of the Taurian is strangely spasmodic. The 
Taurian type asks again and again, “Shall I 
serve my body with its physical appetites, or 
shall I serve the One Self, or the One Life?” 
Hence, Taurus is noted as the sign which disci¬ 
plines the will, which comes under the planet 
Mars, ruling a part of the heavens immediately 
above the eastern horizon. 

Each soul, then, is under one of the twelve 
signs, or under one of the “labors of Hercules.” 
To evade the problem indicated through any 
particular sign is to bring pain, sickness, and 
anxiety, but an acknowledgment of this lesson 
to be learned is bliss. “If I injure another I 
injure myself.” Learning this lesson, the soul 
advances; without it, it is crushed by the oppos- 


The Spirit of Venus 45 

ing Mars. Nations, like humans, rot and die 
without Venus or love-sacrifice. 

Venus gives beauty, grace, true self-restraint. 
She shows us the natural adornments and polish 
of the soul. She is always beautiful, and shows 
the noblest in man is beautiful, born of and from 
the Eternal Self. Religions, literatures, govern¬ 
ments without a touch of the Eternal are flat, 
arid, and worthless. Religion without the artis¬ 
try of Venus, whether in architecture, music, or 
the poetry of service is certainly nondescript, 
and no sermonizing can replace the desired 
artistry of the soul. 

Each sign of the Zodiac indicates what new 
revelation the soul wishes to acquire. The Zo¬ 
diac touches every nerve, gives life to every 
breath. It is Nature’s wardrobe clothing every 
living form. 

Each planet has two aspects or homes, a posi¬ 
tive and a negative, a dynamic and static, mas¬ 
culine and feminine.- The masculine is wisdom 
in action, the feminine is wisdom reflected, or 
static in form. Therefore, all nature is wisdom 
reflected through the spirit of Venus. One as¬ 
pect of the Logos is veiled (Wisdom), the other 
aspect is unveiled, and only is She unveiled in 
Her grander beauties through the power of 
love. In all great religions this is mystically 


46 


The Solar Logos 


known as the Mary of the earth, the Mother of 
God, the static soul full to overflowing. 

The mission of Venus, whether in Taurus or 
Libra, whether she shines as a morning or an 
evening star, is to bring us from the Lower-Self 
to unselfishness in the Higher-Self. Her mas¬ 
culine home is Libra, the artistic, ethereal sign, 
and souls incarnated under Libra are so often 
detached from the earth and its problems and 
pleasures. Six is a mystical number meaning 
unbroken service, unalloyed pleasure, known in 
art, music, and religion. 

Libra souls feel the longing for detachment, 
and hence their rapid changes from melancholy 
to gaiety. Taurian souls are lovers of solitude 
and nature-lovers generally, and both are lovers 
of the beautiful, and in a peculiar way welcome 
death. 

These Venus beauty-lovers often go to the 
beauty of nature to worship rather than listlessly 
and restlessly listen to the rhetorical sermon. 
The emotional nature of Venus has true spir¬ 
itual value, and the esthetic nature is not satis¬ 
fied without its expression; and so, we love 
stained glass windows, the processional hymns, 
and the ritual which brings forth the leap of 
a great emotional appeal. Blessed are such 
churches which stimulate art! 


VI 

THE SPIRIT OF MERCURY 

s 


Some men by meditation, using contemplation upon the 
self, behold the spirit within, others attain to that end by 
philosophical study and its realization. 


— Bhagavad- Gita. 



HAOS must be brought into order and 


Venus must control the fiery Mars, assisted 
by the powers of Mercury, which is a vibration 
in nature known to us through the sense of 
touch, of hearing, and later giving us under¬ 
standing. We read that Mercury leads the very 
gods into battle, which means that for a time, 
until understanding enters the heart and mind 
of man, the physical powers seem to clash and 


fight. 


The planet has a dynamic masculine or wis¬ 
dom aspect in the sign Gemini, and the feminine 
aspect of this power is in the sign of the Virgin 
—Virgo, a word which means “fullness.” 

A soul incarnated with the powers of Mer¬ 
cury finds that his dearest wish and deepest spir¬ 
itual aim is to acquire knowledge. Never so 
happy is he as when he rises to heights of wis- 


47 


48 


The Solar Logos 


dom and intellectual power, and with refined 
senses feels and knows," and so worships the in¬ 
visible powers. He makes his union with the 
Divine through Gnani Yoga or knowledge, and 
with this deeper understanding he can heal with 
touch and word. The sense of hearing is also 
spiritualized, for he can listen to the “Silences 
of the Logos.” He is truly the fighter for wis¬ 
dom, and loves to clear for action against dogma 
and narrowness of mental vision. 

The fiery Mars is friendly to Mercury. It 
gives him zeal and fire to separate errors and to 
make clear that which was clouded or distorted. 

It is known that the Mercurial type has a pe¬ 
culiar cross. He is restless and cannot discern 
the Divine Plan until sense and body are calm. 

The feminine aspect of Mercury (Virgo) is 
Mary, the Virgin, and when that fullness of 
understanding takes place, Mary immaculately 
conceives. The Divine Announcement follows, 
a Divine Son, One with understanding, Light 
(Jesus) is come forth and becomes a true 
Savior, for He knows He is born from above, 
the spirit of understanding descends upon Him. 

Without Mercury or knowledge man wishes 
falsely to have an immortal-mortal life. He is 
afraid, through ignorance, of death. Ignorance 
always throws a dark and stupefying veil on the 


49 


The Spirit of Mercury 

unhallowed mortal, and by unhallowed, here, 
we mean one who is not giving full expression 
to his powers. 

Without Mercury we would have darkened 
vision, a fear of death, and love would have no 
free, true action. To the student of spiritual 
correspondences in nature, when Venus joins 
Mercury in good aspect, the soul expresses its 
own beauty in art, music, and poetry. Venus 
aids Mercury in purifying and cleansing the 
mind from its darkened condition. Venus gives 
us fellowship; Mercury gives us wisdom, re¬ 
sponsibility, “Blessed be the God of Wisdom.” 
Mercury assists us in entering the realms of na¬ 
ture, to watch her operations and to become ac¬ 
quainted with her transformations and transmu¬ 
tations. 

Seven steps are there in this approach to the 
kingdom of kingdoms. 

First:—Innocency—The soul is likened to a 
“little child.” 

Second:—Initiatory—The “little child” en¬ 
ters the temple and psychologically scourges the 
“traders” and “money lenders,” symbolical of 
false activities in the living temple of man. 

Third:—Selection—He will do the works of 
“My Father,” for the soul is now fit for com¬ 
munion with the inner Self. 



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The Solar Logos 


Fourth:—Crucifixion—He can forbear with 
evil and forgive, and is ready to pour out his 
blood or the spirit of life for the sustenance and 
salvation of his lesser brothers. 

Fifth:—Transmutation—He turns the water 
into wine; that is, turns the unconscious into the 
conscious, death into life, sickness into health; 
can give sight to the blind, for the veil of the 
temple is rent. 

Sixth:—Purification—The mind having 
come from its impurity in its association with 
matter, and having attained Self-knowledge, it 
remains in a pure state, and has received the 
consciousness of Consciousness, and this leads us 
to the seventh step. 

Seventh:—Ascension—In which man be¬ 
comes Divine, uniting all men, animals, plants, 
minerals, and elements in himself. “He leads 
the very gods into battle,” we have said, which 
means he has that discrimination between the 
Real and the Unreal. 

Mercury, then, sees and knows that the outer 
worlds are connected harmoniously with him. 
No atom or man stands isolated from the 
Whole. Mercury is a god-like power which 
makes it possible to receive the knowledge 
which descends from above. We can well un¬ 
derstand the ancient symbol of Mercury with 





The Spirit of Mercury 51 

his wings of courage, his wand of truth, and the 
cap of concealment or discretion in holy things. 

At back of each mortal is the thinker who ex¬ 
ercises various powers and notes all spiritual 
acts. The spirit of Mercury fixes our under¬ 
standing and reveals the images of the One. 
Mercury, from restlessness comes to tranquillity, 
peace; from chaos he restores order. He is a 
spiritual germ unfolding the powers of soul on 
its pathway back to God. 


VII 

THE MYSTICAL SUN AND MOON 


O D 

The soul is as a spiritual sun, corresponding in all 
things ‘with the solar orb. IVherefore all they who, by 
‘virtue of their constituting for men a full manifestation of 
the powers of the soul, have been to them as a redeeming 
sun—have been designated sungods, and invested with 
careers corresponding to the apparent annual course of the 
sun. Between the phenomena of this course and the actual 
history of the perfected soul is an exact correspondence, 
requiring for its recognition but due knowledge of both. 
And it is because the soul’s history is one, and this is a 
history corresponding with the sun’s that all those who 
have earned of their fellows the supreme title of Savior 
of men, have been invested with it, and represented as 
having exhibited the same phenomena in their own lives. 
Thus the history ascribed alike to Osiris, Zoroaster, 
Krishna, Mithras, Pythagoras, Buddha, and Jesus, has not, 
as sciolists vainly imagine, been plagiarized in one case 
from another, or borrowed from some common source in 
itself unreal; but it has been lived, spiritually, by men 
themselves indicated by those names. And, being the his¬ 
tory of the soul of the Man Regenerate, it corresponds to 
that of the sun,—the vitalizing center of the physical sys¬ 
tem,—and has accordingly been described in terms de¬ 
rived from the solar phenomena as indicated in the zodi¬ 
acal planisphere. Thus the soul’s history is written in the 
stars; and the heavens are her chroniclers, and tell the 
glory at once of her and of God. A Bible is always a 
hieroglyph of the soul. And. the Zodiac is simply the first 
and most stupendous of Bibles. 

—The Perfect Way. II. par. 46. 


The Mystical Sun and Moon 53 

M AN is the center of his own world and that 
center is symbolized by the dot in the cen¬ 
ter of the Sun symbol O. 

Our Sun is in the center of his own system, 
and this system is a center to a yet larger system, 
and on to incomparably larger systems, until we 
reach the Supreme Center of all things. 

So with man, as he broadens his consciousness 
and intensifies it he reaches his own changeless 
center. The macrocosm is again the teacher. 
All actions, aspects, and motives in nature are 
within himself. He cannot lay blame upon the 
aspects of the constellations as the old astrologer 
taught, for these aspects and angles of the world 
without represent himself as a looking-glass re¬ 
flects the object, clean or unclean, noble or 
craven. 

Understanding these principles, and strength¬ 
ened by a moral will, enables him to meet every 
obstacle in the arena of nature’s conflicts. He 
sets no bound on his thought, he is fearless, and 
he knows that he cannot be bound in thought by 
the external world, no more than lines can bind 
space. 

The soul of nature is symbolized, we have 
said, by the Sun. Through the heat of the Sun 
the Supreme and Invisible Ruler is felt, Wd 


54 


The Solar Logos 


through its light the Invisible Ruler is seen in 
motion, law, and number. 

As the Sun of the heavens is only an atomic 
part of our solar system, so man’s soul is an 
atomic part of the Divine Soul, each responding 
to universal order. Nature is but a symbol and, 
in her last analysis, an interpretation of the Di¬ 
vine Soul or macrocosm. 

We have no spiritual designing in nature 
without the aid of the Sun in the heavens, and 
there is no spiritual designing in the form and 
growth of the physical man without the aid of 
the sun of the soul. We should disabuse our¬ 
selves of the notion that the soul is a kind of 
spiritual essence which is in some peculiar way 
distinct from the individuality, as something 
that can suffer apart from the individual. In no 
sense is the soul a principle apart and distinct 
from the individual, no more than we can con¬ 
sider the Sun apart from the heavens. 

In the great religions of the Past there were 
two cults, a Sun cult and a Moon cult. One 
sought power and understanding from the soul 
in prayer, truth, and universal charity; while 
the Moon cult were led largely by the imagina¬ 
tion, and so became idolators, rather fearing 
than worshiping the Gods (energies). This 
cult, being ignorant of wisdom, fell into fears, 


The Mystical Sun and Moon 55 

and tyranny followed, both individual and col¬ 
lective. 

The mind of a nation which fears easily falls 
a slave to tyrannical laws of cults, creeds, and 
clans. The nation which gathers its essence of 
understanding from the soul becomes noble, 
ascends, and has dominion over lesser nations 
and minds. 

The old mystics taught to their initiates a pe¬ 
culiar axiom: “Take the Moon out of the 
skies,” says the Master of Secrets, “and bathe 
her.” The candidate understood this to mean 
that he must purify his thoughts, sympathies, 
and imaginations, or his judgments would be¬ 
come impaired and blurred, just as a cloud be¬ 
fore the Moon would hide the reflected light of 
the Sun. 

In mysticism the Moon represents dogma, tra¬ 
dition, shadow; the Sun, the light of the Logos 
Reason often rebels against dogma, but mysti¬ 
cism ever invites reason. 

The Sun had many symbols representing 
Holy Light, the circular wafer of the Eucharist, 
the Adam’s apple, the Fruit of the Kalpa, the 
taking of the Sacrament, the One Divine Body 
becoming terrene or earthy, the One Divine 
Body becoming indrawn or eaten with the wine 
of love, the Divine Spirit entering into the as- 


56 


The Solar Logos 


pect of nature called the Mother-Spouse or the 
Virgin-Mother. 

The Sacrament symbolized the partaking of 
Divine Wisdom that man could be redeemed. 

The twelve faculties of the mind center 
around a hidden center which receives inspira¬ 
tion from the soul of man, but that inspiration 
is not complete until the many ideas, imagina¬ 
tions and disquieting thoughts are unified. That 
is well pictured in the story of the disciple Judas 
Iscariot. 

Judas, meaning praise, is a tax-gatherer or a 
man of Kerioth, which means a man of many 
cities, or a dweller in the multitude of thought, 
unillumined by the soul, one ever gathering 
thought, a tax-gatherer. But when the soul or 
Christ in man says, “Friend, thou art come,” 
that mental faculty of gathering is no more. He 
gives the kiss. “It is the one,” says Jesus, “that 
dippeth with me in the dish,” which quotation 
shows that the mental faculty discovers its im¬ 
perfections and associates with the Light. Judas 
goes out into the night and is no more. 

Mystically, night is the nurse of nature, of 
prophecy, and of preparation. Judas signifies 
praise, and humbly says, “It is I who betray,” 
that is, my false imaginations, my false praise is 


The Mystical Sun and Moon 


57 


no longer apart from thee. The sacred kiss uni¬ 
fies all. 

The soul has the power through prayer to 
bring forth the Eternal productive principles 
which guide man to higher and higher knowl¬ 
edge and power, when man can say, “It is I. I 
have been apart from Thee.” We cannot add 
unto the powers of the soul, we can but unfold 
them, and where false pride of intellect held 
sway, humility must take its place. 

In pure astrologia the house of the Sun is the 
sign Leo, Lion, or Judah. Judah means praise, 
glory, nobility. When the Sun is exalted in a 
nativity we have these qualities of mind. But, 
when debased, we have the foolish pride of in¬ 
tellect, vanity, desire of gain. To wear the garb 
of glory we must be clothed with the Sun of 
Wisdom. 

The number of the Sun Kabalistically is four, 
signifying the end of earthy things, or the end 
and completeness of things. Four is the symbol 
of the Cross. It is the fourth month when the 
human embryo is quickened and falls under the 
dominion of the Sun. 

The Sun afflicted harshly under certain as¬ 
pects during the fourth month of pregnancy in¬ 
dicates premature birth; the in-coming soul, 
having failed in the Past to triumph in wisdom 



58 


The Solar Logos 


or to advance itself in the Logos, possibly 
through vikarma or akarma. “God moves in a 
mysterious way His wonders to perform.” The 
law of balance or justice must be fulfilled. 

The Sun in spiritual correspondences stands 
for the life-principle, wisdom, direct cognition 
and the rulership of mind, while the Moon, the 
feminine principle, represents the swaying cur- 
r rents and changes in the objective mind. 

Holding the Sun and Moon in check is the 
fiat of Joshua, a name meaning “deliverer or 
Savior.” Joshua was of the Sun cult. It is a 
monstrous story that he should command the 
Sun and Moon to stand still that the Israelites 
might conquer their warring neighbors. “Sun, 
stand thou still on Gibeon (an exalted height), 
and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon” (the 
name of God or the Ordering, Vibrating power 
of God). “O soul! Be silent, receptive, bring 
the confused images of night to rest. No longer 
dwell on things changeable, that the God on 
High may make known unto thee His ways and 
laws.” 

We read further that Joshua proceeds to cap¬ 
ture the five Kings (senses) and subdues them. 
The whole story being a fitting mosaic showing 
how the supersensuous power of the soul must 
overcome all lower warring forms of conscious- 


The Mystical Sun and Moon 


59 


ness. (Joshua 10, 14). “And there was no day 
like that before or after it, that the Lord heark¬ 
ened unto the voice of a man.” It was a day of 
the golden age of the Sun cult. 

We have other Sun cult men in Gen. 41, 45. 
Pharaoh calls Joseph, Zaphnath-Panneah, which 
means the Prince of the life of an age, or Sun- 
cycle. Pharaoh also gives to him Asenath, the 
daughter of Potipherah, a Priest of On. On 
is another name for the Sun. 

Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Mel- 
chizedec, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Solo¬ 
mon, Jesus are all of the Sun cult. 

The first mention of the heavenly bodies in 
Holy Writ is the fact the Sun and Moon were 
“to divide the day from the night, and to give 
light unto the earth.” They are “for signs” 
also. 

j 

The word day in Hebrew equals a duration of 
time, a long or prolonged period, as the “day 
of grace,” “the ,day of visitation,” “the day of 
judgment,” “man’s day.” Day—YOM—means 
a period of time sufficient for the accomplish¬ 
ment of a specific purpose of creative power, 
not a period alone,of twenty-four hours. 

The perception of the light of the soul, Sun, 
its truth and law, is termed the “day-time of the 
soul.” The Moon refers to darkness, ignorance, 


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60 


The Solar Logos 


natural propensities of passion, desire, pride, or 
a turning away from the Sun. 

The Moon, in true astrologia, rules the first 
four years of a child after its physical birth, a 
secret not always known to the readers of astral 
science. And so, we see in the Moon variability, 
change, quick motion. 

The Solar cult has left us secret interpreta¬ 
tions of the same in the Logos-Manifest. Among 
them we catch glimpses of a god-like vision, 
understanding, and transcendental powers. 

In India the Sun-cult had to retire into the 
jungle away from the Moon-cult. It was a 
strange mixture of souls in this old country, as 
in Egypt, ease and intense action, languor and 
ferocity, idolatry and the loftiest esoteric con¬ 
ceptions, tyranny and the lotus eater, the 
dreamer of strange dreams. It was a great bat¬ 
tle, which should rule, the Sun-cult or the 
Moon-cult. As in the individual, so in the race, 
which shall ascend and bear rule. 

In India, as in Egypt, the Sun-cult con¬ 
quered, and the changing Moon-cult surren¬ 
dered, and the victory of spiritual over temporal 
power spread the idea of Divinity of man. In 
India came the first born of the Sun-cult, 
Krishna—born of a Virgin, over-shadowed by 
the Spirit of the Universe, knowing no fear, is 


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The Mystical Sun and Moon 

initiated and begins his teaching in the form 
of a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna at 
Mount Meron. 

Again it is the Sun-cult doctrine of the im¬ 
mortality of the soul, its birth and rebirth into 
form, and its mystic unity with God. Full of 
poetry is the mighty system of philosophy 
taught by the Sun-cult Krishna. He taught God 
and truth in their infinite beauty and goodness, 
and how these attributes shall become conscious 
in man and fruitful beyond all others. 

We have the Sun-cult in Persia, Mithras, who 
reconciled the light of Orzmund with the som¬ 
ber Arhimanes; in Egypt Horus (Sun), the son 
of Osiris and Isis. In Greece, Dionysius, who 
raised souls to life. Later the Messianic idea 
was born in the Sun-cults of India, Greece, and 
Judea; all harmonize them, and these nations 
were led into a knowledge of Eternal life. 

Jesus followed, prefigured in all creation and 
in every great religion as the apostle of libera¬ 
tion and love-universal. Jesus, who answers the 
question faithfully, “Who am I?” “A child of 
God, doing the laws of My Father.” 

There are yet the two cults, the Moon-cult 
dreaming and often quarreling about traditions, 
separating themselves only through shadows, 
seeking information about God, and so, in need 


62 


The Solar Logos 


of a priest. There is the Sun-cult living to-day, 
as in the Past. 

“Listen within yourself and look into the infinite of 
Space and Time. There can be heard songs of the con¬ 
stellations, the voices of numbers and the harmonies of 
the spheres. Each Sun is a thought of God and each 
planet a mode of that thought. To know Divine 
thought, O Souls, you descend and painfully ascend the 
path of the seven planets and of their seven heavens. 
What do the constellations? What say the numbers? 
What revolve the spheres ? O, lost or saved souls, they 
speak, they sing, they roll your destinies.” 


— Hermes. 


VIII 

THE SPIRIT OF MARS 

$ 

The Body dieth when the Central will of its system 
no longer bindeth in obedience the elements of its sub¬ 
stance. —Hermetic Fragment. 

M YSTICAL truths cannot be presented to 
all alike, hence the use of symbols and 
parables. Each symbol or parable has its place 
in awakening the intuitions of the soul. Every 
soul at some time becomes informed of the over¬ 
shadowing Logos. 

Before this transformation takes place, matter 
seems to dominate spirit; but later spirit gradu¬ 
ally forces itself through matter and dominates 
it. Matter is the gown the soul wears while 
learning creative law, but when the gown is no 
longer necessary it drops back to its primal ele¬ 
ments, is destroyed by the withdrawing of fire, 
and motion ceases in its original form. 

The first thing we view in nature is motion, 
and the first thing we feel is heat. These pri¬ 
mary conditions of nature are constantly at play. 
Heat gives to matter, motion; and motion raises 
matter to a higher receptive condition. 


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64 The Solar Logos 

In the new motions of matter separations take 
place, and Mars is the separator, a planet much 
misunderstood. He separates that which has to 
be separated that the soul may pass on to higher 
planes of experience. If it is the will of the 
human to hinder his progress, accidents occur, 
we say, although there are no accidents; the 
word is a misnomer. If we fail to listen to the 
urge of the soul moving us on into nobler ex¬ 
pressions, an arrest in our apparent progress 
takes place, and Mars’ action then becomes the 
cross. 

He vibrates through the breath on the un¬ 
formed body of desire that desire may take on a 
new active motion. He is the planet of intensity 
and plays upon the will, or dominates the will 
for good or evil, unto those born in Taurus and 
Sagittarius. Taurus we remember is Motion, 
while Saggittarius is Thought. 

Fail to progress in Thought or develop a new 
Motion, and we have to endure the play of Mars 
in our microcosmic self. Every change in all 
forms is the measure of a new vibration, a new 
motion, a new heat. 

Man would tarry on the path of evolution, 
lingering to gather a binding chain of flowers, 
but he must pass on and on, for he must not 
forget that he is not alone mortal, but immortal. 


The Spirit of Mars 65 

Without this understanding, man entangles him¬ 
self, bringing troubles and strife. He needs 
purification by knowledge, and the soul cuts to 
the right and to the left that the powers shall 
be free and enable him to attain virtue rather 
than the pleasures of vice. 

This is the function of Mars, a function 
spoken of by the Christ as bringing a sword, 
the keen sword of Mars. It is the sword of the 
physical will, it is the brute courage, it is the 
spiritual hero or martyr. 

The soul has to escape from the body if it 
would attain true knowledge. It must open the 
Seven Seals of its being. Consciousness must 
be drawn away from physical things if the lesson 
is to be learned, so Mars comes with his wave 
and banishes obstacles, therefore, he has been 
called the planet of war, of grief, of accidents. 
Grief often solves the great problems of the soul. 

Fire is to the body what spirit is to the soul. 
Fire feeds the body as spirit feeds the soul. 

When Mars is strongly poised in the spiritual 
horoscope, we have courage; the native is said 
to act from the center within rather than notic¬ 
ing the entanglements and frictions without. 

When the planet is weak and uncontrolled, 
fiery desires, impulses, and conflicts result. The 
spiritual man can “fight without fury.” The 


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The Solar Logos 


fires of interior generation are within each one. 
Mars makes the leader, and when joined to 
Venus might dominates Venus, but it is the 
province of Venus to mold the fiery rays of 
Mars generally. 

On the physical plane Mars is too intense un¬ 
less softened by Venus. 

When Mercury plays with Mars we have the 
mathematician, the physician, for he gives a 
strong magnetic current to the flesh. 

His picture was that of a winged man and 
lion, the impersonation of human intelligence 
and physical strength. 

It is well to watch the will when the planet 
Mars is in the eastern horizon, and watch the 
health when he is just below the western hori¬ 
zon, and watch the honor of the soul when he is 
shining in the Midheaven of a nativity. 

The pure flame of Mars lights the elevated 
soul, then have we openness, generosity, fearless¬ 
ness, and nobility; but if we are bent on destruc¬ 
tion, the mind is not peaceful and pleasant, but 
quarrelsome, contentious, and sullen. 

As the will becomes united to the Divine 
Will, even the physical substance follows a new 
life, a new power. To interpret Mars aright we 
must not think him the cause of accidents or sud¬ 
den death. One suffering from such an accident 


The Spirit of Mars 67 

has failed to advance in the law of the Manifest 
Logos, and so, is crossed by fiery Mars. 

There is in nature an arrest or contradiction, 
and sometimes we call it evil, but that is a 
groundless fear and brings about belief in evil. 

Mars is a vital principle of the soul, liberat¬ 
ing from one plane to advance to another. To 
hasten development, possess the powers of Mars 
through the banishment of fear, and the encour¬ 
agement of the heroic in yourself. High cour¬ 
age indeed is necessary to lay hold of the thought 
of eternity of soul. 

Mars gives devotion to, first, the Lower-Self 
feeding the physical body with his fires, and to 
the Higher-Self with the power of courage to 
know and do and pass on fearlessly. 

In the present day Mars is freeing mind from 
many forms of matter, many beliefs, many 
shackles of mind. He is giving man ability to 
face Reality, to stand alone, and know he is im¬ 
mortal. The Arcane teachings show that man 
for a time is bound to cosmic force; it is wisdom 
to so obey until he attains to self-revelation, sees 
all the law as an arranger, and finds the voice of 
harmony in the world. 


IX 


THE SPIRIT OF JUPITER 

u 

He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his 
self-made laws. 

All other life is living death, a world where none but 
phantoms dwell, 

A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the 
camel’s bell. 

— Kasidah. 

J UPITER represents the growing mind ris¬ 
ing above matter, seen in the half-circle and 
cross )+ or U. 

God’s voice speaks to man through the eternal 
beauties manifested in the spirit of nature. Man 
is a channel for the expression of the spirit to 
rightly use its powers. When the fiery Mars is 
controlled through the spirit of love, a new feel¬ 
ing toward his brother man is felt, namely, 
Brotherhood, the expression of feeling, forgiv¬ 
ing his younger brother the little error while 
passing through the fiery ordeals of Mars and 
the entanglements of Venus. 

This new spirit is the Divine capacity broad¬ 
ening and making ready for an onward step; it 
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The Spirit of Jupiter 

is the spirit of Jupiter whose celestial home is 
the beautiful Sagittarius, the symbol of which is, 
a Centaur and an Arrow, both symbolizing Di¬ 
vine-man rising out of the animal. 

Jupiter also rules the blood, and impurities of 
the blood are seen when the human does not re¬ 
spond to that spirit of brotherhood, or where he 
uses false powers, or worships the false gods 
jealousy, anger, and avarice. Blood is the first 
form which carries the conscious spirit. There 
is an occult principle in blood which can be best 
expressed by stating that blood is simply mind 
in fusion. 

Jupiter watches over the second month of the 
foetus suspending the seed in a nourishing, gela¬ 
tinous substance, the amnion. So this second 
month, the amniotic period, and the ninth 
month, Jupiter watches. 

The spirit of Jupiter leaves aside suspicion, 
self-centeredness, and all habits of mind which 
would link us to the personal self alone. Jupiter 
is reason based on experience. 

Jupiter’s feminine home is Pisces, the Fishes, 
which in the macrocosm corresponds to or sym¬ 
bolizes Truth, or Peter, the Key to the inner 
kingdom, and when the Babe is seen to have the 
astral signature of Jupiter in Pisces at birth, we 


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The Solar Logos 


know that such a soul readily responds to a fine 
liberality, fraternity, and kinship. 

It feels that a spiritual thought ennobling its 
mind brings a definite harmonious mental 
change. Jupiter is the planet of good-will, an 
intelligent union with a higher law. Being dual 
in its working, half-man, half-horse, etc. 

It is a foolish statement to say that stars rule 
or impose upon us this or that temperament. We 
fit ourselves to vibrations corresponding to plan¬ 
etary vibrations. The soul itself does not vi¬ 
brate, matter feels vibration. Nature is Divinely 
numbered. She is pregnant with meaning. The 
symbolism of nature reveals the true sacrament 
of the spirit. 

The macrocosmic or the celestial man shows 
the orderly process of his thought. Planetary 
influences are simply the forms which tempera¬ 
ments take or use in physical form, that is, some 
planetary waves feed the physical, others the 
mental, and still higher planetary waves feel 
the spiritual. There are certain limitations 
placed on the lower planetary waves, and the 
planet beyond Jupiter, which is Saturn, puts 
upon'us these limitations, for man must be more 
than a social being with a physical body, for he 
is destined to know intuition, that is, to recover 
all his memories of the Past. He is destined 


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The Spirit of Jupiter 

also to be prophetic that he can guide his lesser 
Brethren out of Egypt into the “Promised 
Land. 5 ' He must also become illumined that he 
may even in this present age interpret Divine 
law, not as man says, with his limited creeds 
and dogmatic faiths, but as nature, the voice of 
God, savs. 

7 

The spirit of Jupiter shining in man banishes 
the fear of death, through knowledge, the fear 
of evil, for the true Jupitarian man has the free¬ 
will to choose his actions. He is no longer under 
limitations like the children of Mars and Venus. 
He has a hint occasionally of direct cognition. 

A planet is not a material force only, but a 
spiritual force of which the planet is a material 
manifestation. This force expands in man at 
the same time, in the same harmony and under 
the same law as a planet. The concealed wis¬ 
dom in the stars comes not to man until he can 
control his passions and learn to wait in tran¬ 
quillity. Jupiter leads us out of the animal lim¬ 
itations and invites us to check up through our 
reason every concept, every step we take in ad¬ 
vancing our consciousness. 

We are constantly making character, and that 
character is carried on into other lives than this. 
Jupiter is not a mystic planet, so the Jupitarian 
man does not always come into past memories. 


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The Solar Logos 


He prepares though through brotherhood and 
kindness for that finer plane in which the mem¬ 
ories of his Soul’s Past may not be impaired. 

The occult student must attain the spirit of 
brotherhood, i. e., no condemnation, no criticism, 
no reforming, no “thou shalt and thou shalt not.” 
Freedom is the goal of evolution and there are 
no limitations to the soul’s splendor, when free 
in the knowledge of law. 


X 

THE SPIRIT OF SATURN 

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For things Divine are not accessible to mortals who 
fix their minds on body: } tis they who strip them naked 
that speed aloft unto the Heights. 

—Gnostic Fragment. 

W E must restate that there is the same har¬ 
mony at work in the human soul as in the 
Heavenly Man or Oversoul, the same re¬ 
volving within and without, the same breath, the 
same eternal unit law. Everything is catholic, 
universal, all-inclusive. Lessons can be learned 
at every stage of this grandly unfolding mystery. 
It is the One Universal Catholic Church, visible 
and invisible, with no priesthood. 

We have all the sciences synthesized to bring 
the lover of science to worship; wisdom and jus¬ 
tice of law to encourage the philosopher; the 
universe full of changes within a universe which 
changes not; the universe full of relational ar¬ 
rangements, plans and methods, but One Plan, 
showing a passion, beauty, and sublimity wholly 
satisfying. 

Man’s mind is as varied as nature is varied, 

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74 


The Solar Logos 


related to all planes of understanding, all planes 
of feeling, all kinds of personal desires. 

Moved by the spirit of devotion, baptized by 
the living faith which endows the soul on its 
journey of knowledge and becoming—moved by 
the spirit, man grows into his mental and spir¬ 
itual majority slowly but effectually. He comes 
into the higher vibration of the Logos whose 
symbol is the wonderful Saturn ^, a cross above 
two semi-circles, symbol of a check. Why? To 
hold down the material mind and the physical 
appetites. Withdrawing from the pursuit of 
pleasure he seems not a little cold and calculat¬ 
ing. He discovers power is not of the body but 
the higher Manas or mind. 

Saturn’s vibration is dual, masculine in the 
sign of John the Baptist, the Waterman or 
Aquarius; feminine or receptive in the elemental, 
instinctive, and restless Capricorn. 

One plane of Saturn’s workings is with the 
very beginning of time-forms. He works with 
the chemistry of cells, bones, coal, and lead. He 
builds, organizes, lays foundations and tests his 
work, always tests his work. Saturn or Satan is 
a divine blessing. Thanks for the angel Satan. 
He wishes his foundations in the form-world 
perfect, and the mystic aspires to that condition 
of mind and heart where it shall no longer be 


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The Spirit of Saturn 

necessary to submit to Saturn’s testing or Satan’s 
temptations. “Lead me not into temptation.” 
“Let my heart be at one with thee,” is the very 
center of the Lord’s Prayer. 

The second aspect of Saturn following imme¬ 
diately after the test, Matthew (Taurus) IV 
is the illumination of the soul divested of its 
earthy vestments, on the mount of understanding 
accompanied by the twelve powerfully prepared 
faculties or disciples of mind. 

“No man hath seen God at any time,” is the 
pregnant meaning of Saturn’s first aspect. 

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall 
see God,” is the second aspect or corrected per¬ 
ception of Saturn. It is in the divine plan that 
the outrushing nature of man, the physical ex¬ 
panding of Jupiter, shall be sifted and checked. 
Saturn destroying his five children is a Grecian 
myth holding a priceless mystical truth. The 
outgoing mind submits to a mystical contraction 
or binding, or an activity with lesser motion, 
lesser conflict. The soul must be disencumbered 
or stripped of its grosser garments of matter. 

Blessed be Satan who divinely calls us on 
from the bodily senses in Saturnian years to 
greater bliss, deeper passions, a grander birth. 

Saturn’s vibration is always an important 
study in a nativity. It checks and arrests the 


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The Solar Logos 


desires. It is a law unbreakable as truly as a 
larger circle can circumvent the lesser circle. 
Satan’s dictum, Saturn’s demand—for the two 
terms, Satan and Saturn, are interchangeable—is 
then a state of body and mind to respond to finer 
vibrations in the Logos. He expands by con¬ 
traction. 

The unveiling begins. Senses throb as keenly 
as before, but under the leash. He knows the 
vague longings, the fantasies of the lower man 
are to be satisfied. He sees the way of Sin 
(Chattah—to miss) has led him from the path 
of ascent. The Hindu has a pretty carol de¬ 
scribing the longing of the soul in such a day: 

“O, World! I faint in this thy multitudes 
Of little things and their relentless feud. 

No meaning have I found through all my days 
In their fantastic maze.” 

“O World! Still through the hours of blissful night 
The wisdom moon her benison of light 
Outpoureth where the sacred river seems 
From heaven to bear sweet dreams.” 

“How soon, O World, beside the Ganga shore 
Through the long silent night shall I implore 
The mystic name. How soon in Ganga’s waves 
My sin-stained body lave?” 

Saturn reveals the first consciousness of the 
Self. New and finer perceptions are born. “Be- 


The Spirit of Saturn 77 

hold, the day is come,” saith the Lord (Law) 
“that I will make a new covenant with the house 
of Israel, and with the house of Judah (Sun) 
not according to the covenant I made with their 
fathers: ... I will put my law in their 
inward parts and will write in their hearts.” 

Justice in what we do—a proper discipline— 
is forcibly brought home to the soul born with 
Saturn in Libra—a secondary exaltation of this 
planet. 

Unselfishness in motive is the discipline of the 
soul whose Saturn shines in its masculine home, 
the Waterman or Aquarius,—John—the Love 
Divine. 

Saturn quickens faith, first through solitari¬ 
ness (Saturn in Taurus), and then ridding the 
human Divine man of fear of death (Saturn in 
Capricorn). Death is a web the senses fall into 
through ignorance. The soul has not attained 
its immortality who fears death, for death is 
ever a change to something higher. Says the 
mystic Sufi (Islam, CLOTHED) : 

“I died out of the stone and I became a plant, 

I died out of the plant and became an animal, 

I died out of the animal and became a man. 

When did I grow less by dying? 

Why should I fear death ?” 

“We have a building of God, an house not 
made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” 



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The Solar Logos 


Under Saturn’s beams the Past is slightly re¬ 
covered. That which was hidden is no longer 
occult. Finer vibrations from the Logos mani¬ 
fest are felt. The soul has energies as well as 
the body which need to be fixed in life. We 
find Saturn rules the first month of gestation, 
guarding the human plasmic period. 

He operates with digestion, allowing no evil 
mind to work with the miraculous processes of 
the spleen. So beware of criticism, petty talk, 
professional uplifters, beware of calling the 
brother a sinner, or the Malphigian cells will 
turn the trick against the player. 

Bacchus wants tops to play with as a child, 
and universes as a man. Beware of upbraidings 
or climbing up some other way (mediumship) 
to truth which Saturn turns to chaos, obsession 
and madness. Saturn watches the chemistry of 
bones, cells and ligaments, and the action of the 
native’s thought in mixing and sifting with this 
chemistry. So Saturn is blamed for rheu¬ 
matism. 

Man crucifies himself according to the 
Divine example, seen annually in the Solar 
Man. The lower dies that the Higher may live, 
a victory each soul lives that the ascension may 
follow. 

“Choose ye this day whom ye shall serve,” is 


The Spirit of Saturn 


79 


ever the first going forth to the soul crossing the 
mystic threshold. 

The Saturnian man has a peculiarity in his 
first solitudes, in the desert fasting, i. e., turning 
over immortal truths for a finished period of 
forty days. Saturn tests the neophyte whether he 
truly wish to serve the present only or for all 
time; the temporal self or the Real Self. The 
Divine Presence needs the cleansing power of 
Saturn, for spirit-matter must constantly yield 
to new characteristics, newer beauties, diviner 
powers. 

“Hallowed be thy Name,’' exclaims the mys¬ 
tic after closing the door in silence to the phe¬ 
nomenal world. Let my life be such that I shall 
give thy Name (Energies) its fullest expres¬ 
sion. It is the divine order that man must cleanse 
his body before riding into Jerusalem—the 
Kingdom of Peace. He transfers the will from 
the body to the seat of the soul, acting not from 
the outer but from the center or inner. 

“The things which had no visible shape take 
shape.” Such is the spirit of Saturn. 


XI 

URANUS THE MYSTICAL 

¥ 

Why are works of Nature so perfect? It is because 
each work is a whole, and because Nature works accord¬ 
ing to a plan from, which she never departs; she sketches 
in a single act the original form of every living being; 
she develops this, she perfects it, by a continuous move¬ 
ment and in a time prescribed. The resulting production 
astonishes us; but it is the divine imprint it bears that 
ought to strike us. 

.—Comte de Buffon. 

T HE flower of the mind blooms under 
Uranus. The experiences of the soul under 
Saturn bring enlightenment necessary to receive 
the great Breath of the Divine Fire. The soul 
in its ethereal body now responds to the Uran¬ 
ian vibration of the Logos, and the Paternal will 
becomes slightly unveiled. 

Pure intelligence must descend into the lower 
planes of man’s consciousness, for the real pow¬ 
ers of the mind are hidden from the senses. The 
senses are uncontrolled while man looks out¬ 
wardly for direction. Rarely does he act from 
the soul's center untrammeled, and so, becomes 
a child of destiny without plan. 

Beyond the vibrations of Saturn, beyond the 


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Uranus the Mystical 81 

discipline of Satan, the “agile splendors” of 
Uranus leap into expression, for he is the quick 
planet, an octave of Mercury. Note his symbol 
(^) the circle under the Cross, or mind liber¬ 
ated from matter, the two semi-circles ) ( rep¬ 
resenting the conscious and subconscious minds 
united by the Cross ) + ( an esoteric hint given 
to the neophyte, concealing the two thieves on 
the Cross, united and rising into Paradise, or the 
spiritual nature rising through matter and per¬ 
fectly balanced in matter. 

The Uranian man understands the apparent 
chaos concerning matter. He can compare, an¬ 
alyze, and marshal facts instanter, for he is the 
very crystallization of thought, with the most 
active memory. 

Uranus gives little notice of coming events. 
He sets free, and without warning, old mental 
deposits in us, opens to us experiences that test 
the discipline of Saturn. To make plain: sup¬ 
pose in the Past the neophyte had murdered an¬ 
other in anger, and during the succession of lives 
following, had not set himself free from the lim¬ 
itations of anger; the opportunity falls under 
the Uranian ruling unexpectedly. Say, hate 
suddenly possesses him, now hate revives old 
Karma, old mental deposits—and without warn¬ 
ing the act is repeated, again murder is com- 


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The Solar Logos 


mitted, followed by surprise, remorse, undoing. 

Saturn does not emasculate Uranus for naught. 
It is not an easy task to explain even the symbol 
of Uranus to the rigidly objective mind. 

Scripture writing is indeed a holy calling, 
and to “search the Scriptures” is the command 
of the Master to the neophyte. God’s Word is 
written in His Works. The Gospel story of the 
Cross is the outer veil of a mystery universal. 
The Cross and its opposites is the Tree of Life 
—the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the 
first and last symbol of the neophyte. 

Uranus then, unites the two opposites. It is 
the personal mind only which creates the two as¬ 
pects of Good and Evil. It pushes itself in like 
a thief, insinuating itself between cause and 
effect. It judges by effects only. There is no 
mystic balance between the objective and the 
subjective. 

The Cross is the symbol of the true Self, full 
of joy not Sorrow, it is the dividing of the Real 
from the unreal, perfection from imperfection. 
The physical pictures of the Cross portray suf¬ 
fering, sorrow, darkness instead of joy, laughter, 
delight. 

The Hindu goddess Kali—Nature (or Mother 
Nature’s energies)—crushing man, is pictured 


Uranus the Mystical 


83 


ugly, but the white man crushed under her body 
smiles back, for Kali cannot crush the Soul. 

“See,” said Jesus to his companions, who find¬ 
ing a dirty, sick, dying dog, complained of its 
ugliness, its filth, “but see how white its tooth.” 

Uranus’ vibration joins the opposites. It 
shares its life with the opposite, unites with 
“publicans and sinners” alike, for it is an emana¬ 
tion of the Logos which puts the pilgrim in 
touch with the Father, whose Law unites with¬ 
out separating. The Supernal Mind unites the 
opposites and ascends the mount of illumination 
untrammeled in the ascent. 

The Son of Uranus, conscious of his immor¬ 
tality, is never in a hurry within though abnor¬ 
mally quick in his outward actions. He wastes 
no ideas on non-essentials, so wastes no time and 
is unjustly termed eccentric. As he turns over 
the pages of the Book of Life wonderful facts 
and forces are discovered in this cosmos of ours, 
a new universe spreads itself before his vision. 
The Uranian “knows, and knows he knows.” 
The Logos is Self understood under his rays. 

The occult Uranian vibration reveals law in 
that the subjective mind vibrates in unison with 
the Logos unmanifest. The objective mind may 
confirm this source of knowledge in reading “the 


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The Solar Logos 


Scriptures of the Zodiac,” for there is always 
“Thomas” the doubter. 

True education is from within, verified in the 
changing world from without. The Logos man¬ 
ifest is the reflection of the Logos unmanifest. 
Nature is the Divine Mind-Logos in action. 
The Divine Mind or Father instructs His Son, 
His begotten offspring, concerning his Father, 
his Godhead, his Kingdom, concerning his Eter¬ 
nal inheritance. 

The mystical Scriptures deal with universal 
laws of man, nature, God. These Scriptures are 
not historical but eternal and universally ap¬ 
plicable to all men, all souls for all time. 

Suffering means incompleteness, it is the thief 
or lower mind not knowing itself to be a King, 
having rule of the empire of lives or cells which 
compose the organism of the physical body. 

The forces and powers of nature compel us 
to act according to law, or we are shipwrecked 
like Jonah, who is told to carry the Divine mes¬ 
sage to the Ninevites (worshipers of Nun, the 
Fish-god of plenty). Jonah hesitates at Joppa 
(the rounded form of sense), then follows the 
breath of the Logos, likened to a storm. Jonah 
must dwell for a time in the body (whale) of 
unformed, restless and misdirected desires three 


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Uranus the Mystical 85 

days, until the Law (Love) opens up another 
opportunity and quickly restores Jonah. 

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. 
The Creator blessed and sanctified His work on 
the seventh day. The Uranian sees and knows 
his work is holy. Seven is his sacred number in 
the Kabala, meaning occult intelligence. It 
disciplines the fine motion-light in the body. 
Seven in the cosmos shows the lunar change. On 
the seventh day the babe’s cord falls off. Seventh 
day the babe sees light for the first time. . . . 

(N. B.—The nurse should note this and protect 
the infant from light.) Seven denotes the reflec¬ 
tive sense of light—clairvoyance. 

There are seven characters of wisdom— 
James III, 5-7; seven years of repentance; seven 
churches of Asia; seven angels; seven trumpets; 
seven seals; seven makes a lodge; there are seven 
apertures of the skull; the seventh sign is Libra, 
the balance between the two minds already ex¬ 
plained. 

Numbers are understood by the Uranian, for 
the soul’s observance is acute, being the teacher 
of his own Self. Seven is the superman who 
“can extract” the soul from the mortal body, the 
emotional soul from the desire body, and with 
mind unfettered sees cosmic evolution as a spir- 




86 The Solar Logos 

itual condition instead of a purely physical 
growth. 

The Uranian man is ready to serve a moment, 
a day, a cycle of incarnations, ready to descend 
to earth to teach his fellow mortals their immor¬ 
tality. Let me quote a little gnostic epigram: 

“ ‘But,’ Jesus said, ‘Father, behold, 

A War of Evil has arisen upon the Earth, 

It comes from thy breath, and ever works: 

Man strives to shun this bitter chaos, 

But knows not how he may safely pass through it; 
Therefore, do Thou, O Father, send me: 

Wearing thy seals I will descend (to earth) : 
Throughout the ages I will pass; 

All mysteries I will unfold, 

All forms of Godhead I will unveil, 

All secrets of thy holy path 
Styled Knowledge (Gnosis) I will 
Impart to man.’ ” 

The home of Uranus is the Waterman Aqua¬ 
rius, but of another aspect, not John the Baptist 
Aquarius, but John the Revelator Aquarius (^). 
The wavy parallel lines of water (~), the un¬ 
conscious and the conscious flowing together or 
symbolizing the higher and the lower minds, 
joining together diverse points of consciousness. 
Such is Uranus, the man pouring out water, un¬ 
bound in his consciousness, free in choosing his 
births. The soul is nearing its end of physical 
births, the end of its pilgrimages is in sight. It 


Uranus the Mystical 87 

incarnates voluntarily with the set purpose of 
Service. 

The Uranian man is one whose perceptions 
quickly crystallize facts. He is a man with a 
broad vision and keen insight of the universe. 
He never tries to define Divinity. We find him 
the keenest student in occult and mystical sci¬ 
ence, and when Uranus is well aspected by Ju¬ 
piter, the religious faculty is profoundly mys¬ 
tical. It is a planet that does not represent so 
much the mortal as the immortal. Its vibration 
is a fitting prelude to the more spiritual vibra¬ 
tion of Neptune. 


XII 

THE SPIRIT OF NEPTUNE 

V 

IVherefore I got me ready and made the thought 
in me a stranger to the world-illusion. 

—Gnostic Fragment. 

T O man, having transcended his duality or 
sense of separateness, Neptune reveals in a 
sensitive brain the vibrations of the Logos in a 
further restored memory of God, His law and 
name. 

Duality has required, hitherto, in the experi¬ 
ences of the religious life, formularies, creeds, 
appearances and separateness. Under Uranus 
the two modes of consciousness were united, the 
objective to the subjective, a preparation for the 
Divine marriage. Neptune confirms the union 
of the soul with the spirit, the Divine marriage, 
the water made into wine. The mystic silently 
rises in wisdom above the changing opinions of 
the passing hour. 

Under the Uranian wave the neophyte clari¬ 
fies old mental deposits and under the same vi¬ 
bration we have the inventor, the eccentric who 

separates himself from the multitude. He knows 

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The Spirit of Neptune 

the meaning of “My kingdom is not of this 
world,” and understandingly responds to all 
mystical utterances of great Souls. He can say 
to Mother Nature what the initiate always says 
at the Divine marriage, “Mother, what have I 
to do with thee?” He suffers no shocks from 
grief, has no blighted hopes nor elementary 
fears. Hidden memories, thwarted hopes were 
but the sheaths hiding the unveiling truth. 

The Uranian is the law-giver showing reason 
and the intellect united to intuition. His soul, 
like Moses the Law-giver, is married to Zip- 
porah, meaning beauty, virtue. This union of 
the Uranian to beauty and virtue endows him as 
the leader, the arranger, the word Moses mean¬ 
ing “arranger.” To be married means to be 
united to the soul in spirit and is spoken of as 
was Zipporah, that she was “pregnant with no 
mortal” but throbbing with the new life of good¬ 
ness and beauty. 

When the soul is full to overflowing as Mary, 
she is said to conceive miraculously and her off¬ 
spring is crowned in Light (Jesus=Light). 
Hermes was also miraculously conceived 
(Hermes=Understanding). This Light of the 
soul serves not only the time-hour but serves in 
the Eternal, conceived as it is of the Holy Ghost. 
The miraculous birth and finding of Moses by 


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The Solar Logos 


a daughter of the ruler of Egypt is another hint 
of a mystery not quite unveiled, the water signi¬ 
fying the unconscious, and the daughter of the 
ruler means the ruling receptive powers ready 
for a new engraftment of the spirit. 

The miraculous birth of Krishna in a cow¬ 
shed; of Jesus in a stable, symbolize Light born 
where lower mental conditions held sway. Mor¬ 
tals are yet far away from the spiritual tide of 
these truths. Such teachers speak from direct 
cognition, direct Light. This Light, difficult 
to explain or even hint at its meaning, is that of 
Neptune’s vibrations in the Logos manifest. It 
is the Light that reveals the Eternal in freshness 
and beauty. 

Notice the soul born with Neptune well 
placed in the horoscope, placid in the silence of 
profound insight; he feeds himself while on 
earth as if he were in the kingdom of heaven. 
He prays consciously for that holy bread to give 
life and beauty to all. His vibration knows no 
opposition. He knows the right use of love. He 
is a reflector, flashing back the holy Light like a 
jeweled prism. He is a brother unto all. 

The Four Great schools on earth have known 
of this spiritual liberation, a liberation which 
gives the right use of memory. The law of the 
Neptunian is that of loving action; so his words, 


The Spirit of Neptune 91 

full of truth, command all nature to respond to 
his wish. He is the essence of power. He is at 
once the Prophet who sees into the Past and the 
future, the Priest who can readily use a symbol 
to veil or unveil an eternal truth. He is the 
King who has one will, noble and Divine— 
Prophet, Priest, and King. 

The spiritual centers of the body vibrate in a 
new life full of virtue and new power. You will 
notice when Neptune is afflicted in a nativity 
there is a peculiar absent-mindedness with 
vagaries and ill-balanced thought. These con¬ 
ditions prevail only when the soul for a time is 
divorced from the objective mind in action. 
When Neptune is exalted and supported by 
other major planets the meaning of Nirvana, 
Rasa, Bliss is experienced in the functioning of 
the higher manas. 

Neptune’s vibration is of the spirit, beautiful 
and glorious, with the power to reflect that 
beauty and glory in nature. Its energy bestows 
in the world of changing forms, prevision, fore¬ 
knowledge, unity. He can supply food from the 
“one loaf” to the great multitude, and yet there 
are baskets of fragments left. He lives the life 
of heaven on earth, the kingdom of heaven being 
within, knowing that in giving life to others he 
has more abundant life himself. 


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The Solar Logos 


The pouring out of the life blood on the Cross 
is the joy of the Initiate, for blood represents 
only a conveyance of the spirit. To pour out 
the blood means to shed forth the spirit of new 
life and thus bring about redemption, nearness, 
an altered condition uniting all forms of life 
with no separateness. He lives in all forms of 
life at the same time, time and space being anni¬ 
hilated. He can at will see and know what is 
transpiring in any part of our planet. Having 
received the three great gifts, the gold, frankin¬ 
cense and myrrh, at the birth of this new life, or 
we might say, having a true will (gold), having 
the knowledge of the priest (frankincense), and 
the intuition of the prophet (myrrh) he goes 
forth as the teacher. 

Sometimes this exaltation is referred to as a 
‘‘white soul,” as an “old soul,” or again, as in 
the Gnostic Fragments states a “first-class soul.” 
Such a soul is a forerunner of a new cycle, for 
he wears the seamless coat of Truth undimin¬ 
ished. Let me give a quotation: “The meaning 
is that when the soul receives the Divine Seed, 
the first births are spotlessly white like unto the 
light of utmost purity, to radiance of the great¬ 
est brilliance, as though it were a shadowless 
light of the sun’s beams from a cloudless sky 
at noon.” 


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The Spirit of Neptune 

We can join in this seraphic vision the glory 
of the prophet who said, “Out of Egypt (spir¬ 
itual darkness) have I called my Son,” or an¬ 
other fragment from the mystic Luke, “And he 
shall reign over the house of Jacob (an arch or 
dome of the sky) forever.” The soul is no longer 
wrapped in swaddling clothes, but fully become, 
having attained the spiritual majority. 

Spiritual truths are not a little misleading 
when historicized. The spiritual birth of the 
Light-Christ is a perpetual event, and discovered 
we can affirm like Simeon (perception) in the 
Past, who rapturously exclaimed when he saw 
the Embodied Light in form, “Lord, now lettest 
thou thy servant depart in peace according to 
thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.” 

Neptune is the eighth planet, and the eighth 
mansion of the heavens esoterically denotes 
death, change, and a new cycle, a cutting off, or 
circumcision of the flesh. It also means “the 
gateway of eternity.” The vibration hides in its 
fineness supernormal knowledge. Neptune rises 
out of the foam of the ocean, we read, out of states 
in which mankind were ages unconscious of Di¬ 
vine knowledge. 

A soul under Neptune’s vibrations is in com¬ 
munion with the soul of man as well as the soul 
of the universe, possessing the suprasensual or 


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The Solar Logos 


power and knowledge beyond forms, enjoying 
powers of pre-vision. It gives the rapture of a 
forward view of life, an unfettered spiritual 
knowledge. The soul in this exalted state is 
filled with the breath of God, an incarnation of 
holy Brahma, possessing reminiscence, not of one 
life but all the lives up and through all organic 
forms. 

All true memories of the soul are memories 
of pleasure, beauty, of spiritual conquests and 
victory. Pleasure memories of the ordinary 
mind are easily retained, but more so of the soul, 
for the pleasure memories are never lost or 
forgotten. 

The child of Neptune is early aware of the 
awakened centers not physical, through which 
he recovers memories of the beginnings of a 
cycle of manifestation, the very history of the 
macrocosm. Through these perfected soul-cen¬ 
ters he feels the very Source of life. Nature’s 
secrets are revealed, for such a soul is a perfect 
lover of truth, and all his spoken words—being 
truth—become effective. 

The macrocosm is faithful to the Divine direc¬ 
tion, and in like manner the microcosm or 
cosmic man is Divinely directed, bringing forth 
a gem-producing idealism, a Divine body which 
ascends unto the Father. 


The Spirit of Neptune 95 

Reviewing the life of the soul, we see it ever 
an atomic part of the Divine Soul with powers 
like God’s power, spiritual in essence. While 
the soul is enthralled in matter it seems for a 
time to forget it is a servant of Deity, and so, 
believes and enjoys its physical powers only, for¬ 
getting it enjoys these powers and will through 
God. 

While in such form it has material desires and 
believes matter real, and so, is termed an “idol¬ 
ater,” worshiping images, gripping to mate¬ 
rial things as of great value, and trouble indeed 
follows. But it cannot always act like a child, 
for the child must grow to maturity, therefore, 
the soul must, while in flesh, succumb to a rota¬ 
tive principle of matter in measured action like 
unto the Logos-form seen in the Solar-system. 
This rotative principle is the Solar-Logos, told 
many times in many ages in myth and mystery 
plays. 

Matter is only a reflected power initiating the 
soul for a cycle of time, teaching the soul to un¬ 
fold its vision, its power in Divine action. We 
have ignorantly thought of the laws of matter in 
terms of punishment, correctives administered 
by an angry God. We have perhaps wondered 
why we should be born in matter. It is to ac¬ 
quire knowledge and use of the soul’s creative, 


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The Solar Logos 


god-like powers, and under the finer rhythm of 
Neptune, it loves to correct or modify all its 
desires and wills, that it may partake more of the 
Will and Divine attributes of its Real Self. 

This finer rhythm corresponds to the differ¬ 
ent hidden centers in the body, namely: the cre¬ 
ative centers, also the psychic, phrenic, noetic, 
sympathetic, the whole of the cerebro-spinal 
system, and the aura. The virginal spiritual 
powers are awakened in these centers in silence. 
It is the winepress of the seven harvesters spoken 
of in Revelation, also the glory aura and the 
glory authority. 

Neptune acquaints us with the seven cities in 
the human body, Ephesos, Smyrna, Pergamos, 
Thyateira, Sardeis, Philadelphia, Laodikeia, 
which are but the names hiding the sealed vital 
powers and spiritual processes in the living con¬ 
secrated temple, the body of man. 


XIII ' 

HEBREW NUMBERS: THE PYRAMID 


O Egypt! There shall remain for thee for future 
generations only fables that no one will believe, nothing 
of thee shall endure except words cut out of stone. 



— Herme. 


HP HIS quotation is from the ancient Egyptian 
* priesthoods, and how true today? How we 
delve, dig, search, and study the Egyptian hiero¬ 
glyphs, the temples of Osiris in ancient Thebes 
(the City of the Sun), the solar Ark, crypts, pyr¬ 
amids, and the colossal, calm, mysterious Sphinx. 

These ideographs teach celestial correspond¬ 
ences between man, the microcosm, and the 
Solar-man, the macrocosm. From the Egyptian 
priesthood and the Brahmins of India we learn 
the doctrine of the Solar-Light—The Logos- 
Light. The doctrine of the Logos-Light or the 
light of manifestation was interpreted by num¬ 
bers, by the stars of the Zodiac commonly called 
the Book of the Law. 

Numbers conceal supernatural or supersensual 
design, yet retain in their concealment a spiritual 
significance. The Hebrew numbers and letters 
hold the key which unlocks the language of uni- 



98 The Solar Logos 

versal principles. It is true that “the infinity of 
numbers is a fact proved to your mind, but of 
which no proof can be given of its materiality.” 
The mathematician sees that the infinite in num¬ 
ber exists but does not portray itself. “God is 
like unto a number possessed of motion and cog¬ 
nizes but does not reveal himself.” The exist¬ 
ence of numbers depends on unity, One. The 
whirring Verbum, Logos, or Manifest Name is 
number. Numbers stand for principles, not 
fancies, likewise for names in Hebrew Scrip¬ 
tures. 

The ancients left to us a model for secret Ma¬ 
sonry in the Pyramid (Gizeh), secrets the He¬ 
brews “borrowed” from the Egyptians, pertain¬ 
ing to the measurement or the macrocosm and 
the esoteric building of the cosmos. These 
measurements are for the building of a perfect 
man or the type of a universal Church. (Ephe- 

_§ians, Chap. II, 19-20.) “And are built upon 

the foundation of the apostles and prophets, 
Christ being the chief corner stone. In whom all 
the building fitly framed together groweth into 
an holy temple in the Lord. In whom ye also 
are builded together for an habitation of God 
through the Spirit.” 

Numbers typify the generative principle and 




Hebrew Numbers: The Pyramid 99 

conceal the rejected stone not used by the present 
builders. 

The pyramid was not a fancy builded by mis¬ 
take or without knowledge. From a pre-historic 
past it holds' the lost secret of numbers. “An 
extreme precision,” says one writer, “a thing at 
which the mind stands truly aghast and con¬ 
founded appears to have presided at the opera¬ 
tion and geodetic calculations of the ancient 
Egyptians.” 

There certainly was an intuition in humanity 
at that time which confronts the materialistic 
philosopher of today, an intuition which leads 
man to a perception of measurements and num¬ 
bers spiritual. The lessons taught in this won¬ 
derful astronomical observatory are many: 

1. It tells its own Latitude. 

2. It tells its own age. 

3. The circumference of the Earth. 

4. The shape of the Earth. 

5. The density of the Earth. 

6. The days of the year. 

7. The time of descent of Sun and Moon. 

8. The distance from the Sun. 

9. The planetary distances. 

10. The equinoxes. 

11. The precession of the equinoxes. 

12. The revolution of the Dog Star, Sirius. 


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Certainly an early human race seems to have 
desired to aid a later humanity in learning time, 
measure and proportion of creation. 

God does not teach by miracle. Was this 
teaching descended from Atlantis or was the 
Pyramid the rejected stone not used by the pres¬ 
ent builders while completing the edifice of 
man, we might again ask? Does it hide a lost 
secret? How old is it? 

“Old Time, himself so old, is like a child 
And can’t remember when the blocks were piled, 

Or caverns scooped, but, with amazing eye, 

He seems to pause like other standers-by— 

Half thinking that the wonders left unknown, 

Were born in ages older than his own.” 

— Clarke. 

The Divine mind is constantly growing in 
man, always perfect from the first, yet requir¬ 
ing space, time, growth of cells, growth of 
mind and soul, all hidden and yet revealed in 
numbers. The following meanings are ascribed 
to the Hebrew numbers. 

ONE.—Aleph, a silent Hebrew letter denotes 
unity and commencement; to join together; to 
subdue, teach, discipline. It is the symbol of 
oneness of God; unity of atoms, worlds, souls; 
the Macrocosmic Soul. 

TWO.—Beth= b of bh. The root meaning 
is to build, erect, form or make. It represents 


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constructiveness. Two is a number meaning to 
revolve, to repeat, to turn. Beth means also a 
house, as Bethel, “a house of God.” 

THREE.—Gimel, to warm, cherish; to carry 
or bear. It defines receptivity, resurrection of 
mind; to lead. 

FOUR.—Daleth, door, pendulum, vibration, 
evolution, the process of the creative mind, cre¬ 
ative works (3+1). Also things terrestrial; a 
completed action of the Divine generation. 

FIVE.—He, a window through which light 
comes. Divine Grace. Tabernacle measure¬ 
ments. Education, perception, a basis of knowl¬ 
edge. To marshal; put in order. 

SIX.—Wau, a peg, nail or hook connecting 
service; therefore reciprocity; the human num¬ 
ber. Perverted it stands for defiance to God’s 
law, Goliath, Nebuchadnezzar, and so, sickness 
follows. 

SEVEN.—Zayin, victory, spiritual perfec¬ 
tion. The Holy Spirit’s Work. Liberty; to fin¬ 
ish, to perfect a covenant as in holy matrimony, j 

EIGHT.—Hheth, to gird, or defend. A neW^ 
cycle. Resurrection or judgment completed. 
Death; a new First as an octave in color, music, 
days of the week. The Lord rises on the “eighth 
day,” that is, the new first day. The number of 


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The Solar Logos 


Jesus is 888 or its multiple is impressed on all 
the works of the Lord, names, and peoples. 

NINE.—Teth, a serpent, to twist or curve; 
the three-fold trinity; finality of judgment; Di¬ 
vine completeness. The number measuring and 
completing all cycles. 

TEN.—Yodh, to praise, power, another new 
First or Ordinal Perfection. Also to put forth 
the hand. 


ELEVEN.—Kaph, disorganization. A wing; 
flight; to nurture, to extend. The Divine over¬ 
shadowing. The new hope or wish of the soul 
in its involution toward matter or rebirth. 

Y TWELVE.—Lamedh, to chastise, to train, to 

teach. Affliction; an onward impulse of soul. It 
is the number of governmental perfection, or 
factor of all numbers connecting government, 
whether by tribes, apostles, or in measurements 
of time, or in things which have to do with gov¬ 
ernment in the heavens and the earth. 

THIRTEEN.—Mem, a number denoting 
motion; to be active; to flow out. 

FOURTEEN.—Nun, a fish, to sprout, or life 
renewed through form or manifestation. 

FIFTEEN.—Samekh, to uphold, to sustain 
or draw near, to refresh. Samekh denotes 
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Hebrew Numbers: The Pyramid 103 

SIXTEEN.—Ayin, a silent letter denoting 
prophecy. 

SEVENTEEN.—Pe, represents the Logos, 
or Word, a combination of spirit and order. 

EIGHTEEN.—Tsadhe, a hook or scythe, 
meaning to cut down, to reap, or the principle of 
adaptability. 

NINETEEN.—Qoph, to encircle, to be 
quick or give instant recognition of things in the 
objective world. 

Resh is the twentieth letter. As a noun it de¬ 
notes the head or the highest seat of Conscious¬ 
ness. It stands for intuition or the instant recog¬ 
nition and relation of things in the subjective 
world. 

Sin or Shin equals the twenty-first letter, its 
name signifies a tooth, or to pierce, also engraft- 
ment. 

Tau is the twenty-second letter, denoting to 
grieve, repent or to abide. In the alphabet of 
principles it represents the crucifixion or the in¬ 
tersection of the horizontal line of involution by 
the vertical line of evolution. 

The frontispiece, the Gnostic Cross, is drawn 
after the letter Tau. 

The four perfect numbers, 3, 7, 10 and 12, 
have for their product the remarkable number 


104 The Solar Logos 

2,520. It is the least common multiple of the 
ten digits governing all numeration, and can, 
therefore, be divided by each of the nine digits 
without a remainder. It is also the number of 
chronological perfection (7x360=2,520). The 
key number of 2,520 is nine. 

Taking this nine as the number measuring or 
closing all cycles, we may, as is well known, 
multiply it by any number, and it resolves itself 
into the nine, like all the different aspects of the 
Eternal and Divine essence which eventually re¬ 
turn into the One Primal Source. 

Nine unlocks the cycles of the First Great 
Cause, termed life-waves. Each wave is meas¬ 
ured by a Polar Day, the earth’s pole being the 
dial or time-piece of all the Great Cycles of our 
planetary chain. Note the pole’s spiral motion 
is 50" of space in one hundred years, or \" in 
two years, or 7,200 years to one degree. ~ So 
7,200X360= 2,592,000 years, a Polar Day. 

Nine, we have noticed, denotes a twist or 
curve, a Kuklos (Gr.) or cycle. A Divine Year 
is 360 human years. 1,200 Divine years equals a 
Divine Cycle or Age or 4,320,000 years. Since 
the last deluge twenty-seven Divine Cycles have 
passed, we are now in the twenty-eighth cycle or 
year, of which three seasons have passed. Other 
great cycles are measured in like manner. We 




Hebrew Numbers: The Pyramid 105 

have hints in the Hebrew of Divine Years, sev¬ 
enty-two; Divine elders, seventy-two. Strange 
as it may seem, all these numbers and measure¬ 
ments are prefigured in the Pyramid of Gizeh. 

The angelic teachers of mankind instructed 
well their adept pupils in the law of number, 
manifest in all nature’s motions. 

If we study number in its relation to the 
twelve Patriarchs, or the Zodiac, given in a 
former study, we shall see upon what basis the 
student of astral arcana rests his meaning of 
houses, mansions, domiciles or homes of the 
planets, and also how mathematical certainties 
may be computed which may later be verified 
in the acts or condition of a nation, cosmos, or 
individual. 


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XIV 

THE SOUL IN ACTION 

It was . . . taught that the souls of the Pneu- 

matici (Spiritual), having lost the remembrance of their 
heavenly derivation, required to become once more par¬ 
takers of Gnosis, or knowledge of their own pneumatic 
essence (not intellectual but spiritual knowledge there¬ 
fore), in order to make a Return to the Realm of Light. 

—Gnostic Fragment. 

T HE soul works or lives in various forms of 
matter, physical, feeling-stuff, and mental 
matter, and its actions in these kinds of matter 
are termed Karma, a much misunderstood word. 
Karma means action, it is an Oriental word and 
means in its purity, good action or a love of good 
action, which enables the soul to free itself from 
the shackles of matter. 

Good Karma, therefore, would mean an action 
to obtain virtue. Good actions die not but con¬ 
stantly becoming more and more fruitful, beget 
other good actions in an ever-widening sphere. 

Good actions come from faith primarily, and 
faith to the soul is what sense is to matter. It is 
a Divine touch given to every soul enthralled in 
matter. Faith is not a belief in a form or creed, 

but an essence, a leading of the soul. We must 
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The Soul in Action 107 

cultivate faith and have faith in faith while we 
are working in illusory and changing matter. 
Realization in faith demands a constant effort 
with an intense desire, and is followed by peace, 
a static condition in which the Soul or Self 
comes into pure consciousness and knows all 
things and all knowledge at once. 

From time to time we have had groups of 
men, saints, yogis, sanyasins, the Quietists, en¬ 
joying ravishly the realization of faith. This 
enjoyment is sometimes called Rasa (bliss) and 
urges the soul to bring others into the same bliss 
or enjoyment, known as the Evangelist or the 
true Gospeler who forsakes all “to follow me.” 
Faith directs generously our sense of duty to 
matter and to all beings in the form of matter, 
and first frees us from the sin of condemnation. 
Without faith we fall into omissions of duty 
which are termed Akarma, a slightly different 
meaning to Karma. 

Akarma might be termed an omission of duty 
in living up to one’s highest or rightfully using 
our “talents.” The soul’s action in matter must 
go on and on ceaselessly, coming in contact with 
its own actions or Karma, with its own omissions, 
or Akarma, and every thought and action returns 
in a given cycle to the sender, the doer, or the 
actor. 


108 The Solar Logos 

If through a blind selfishness we have in all 
or part omitted a right action, we have for a 
time severed ourselves temporarily from feeling 
the latent powers of the soul, or temporarily ar¬ 
rested our spiritual evolution. The result is a 
feeling of restlessness, anxiety, and doubt; such a 
soul sees little beauty, has no aim, and is a 
trouble to itself. 

Karma in reality is redemptive, while Akarma 
brings unpleasant states either in the present life 
or in other lives. These pleasant and unpleasant 
states are shown in good and evil angles in the 
nativity at birth. To the close students of true 
astrologia we have the meaning of retrograde 
motions, peculiar arrests in our success, un¬ 
bidden delays and anxieties in our hopes and 
wishes, followed by an unsettled, curbed, and 
restless will. 

Each student should try to fathom one of the 
petitions of the Lord's Prayer, “Lead me not 
into temptation, ” let my actions be such that 
I shall meet temptation as a lesson for the ad¬ 
justment or redemption of Akarma. Akarma 
brings more or less mental confusion followed 
by self-pity. 

There is yet another kind of action we must 
consider, under the term of Vikarma. This is 
the harshest kind of action, signifying crime or 


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109 


accepting a truth and willingly perverting its 
use. Vikarma, therefore, under the same law 
would result on the return of such actions to the 
soul in a disastrous birth, plunging it into most 
difficult limitations, mental and bodily. Such 
actions created, put the soul into the very hells 
on earth. The law of the Lord is just; and 
whether prince or pauper, all come under the 
same law. 

We see, therefore, the earth to be a place of 
correction as well as a sphere to acquire knowl¬ 
edge. To some souls it means correction, but 
to all souls it means instruction. Some souls are 
beginning their lives in the material phenomena, 
and so, like children are limited, knowing little 
of the mental world. Others again, are less 
limited and are learning the discipline and rule 
of mind, while other souls are yet perfecting 
themselves in spiritual experiences. But to all 
faith is necessary, through which we get wisdom 
and virtue. 

Truth is the same at all times. Every soul is 
measured and numbered by an absolute standard, 
merit, and defect. It is all recorded in the Si¬ 
lence of the Logos. “Every hair is numbered, 
and not a sparrow falleth to the ground.” 

Our actions fall under one of three groups, 
Karma, Akarma or Vikarma. They produce 


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The Solar Logos 


and grow and we gather the harvest at a time 
not of our own choosing. 

Man is ever the center of the Universe, and 
the center of all his lives and actions. In this 
center must he establish faith, mystically spoken 
of as the “dry land’’ (YABISSAH), created on 
the third day, which numerically stands for in¬ 
volution and evolution; or the “dry land” we 
might say, is the symbol of faith which shows 
from whence all growth proceeds. 

Evil is sterilized by good action, the affirma¬ 
tion of truth. We must, though, add to faith 
knowledge while the soul is under the necessity 
of obedience to matter, and conditioned by mat¬ 
ter. Knowledge gives mastery over nature’s 
energies, mystically called “numbering.” 

The ascent from animal to man demands the 
ordering or numbering of the different energies, 
wills, and desires, until the human becomes the 
Divine man, when he sees himself as God sees 
him, created-in His image—the heavenly man. 

We do not make this law, we cannot mar it, 
but we can get the knowledge that we may use 
it, and to receive that knowledge is joy, realiza¬ 
tion, illumination. 


The Soul in Action 


“Thou art from of old, O soul of Man. 

Yea, thou art from the Everlasting: 

Thou puttest off thy bodies as a raiment 
And as vestures dost thou fold them up. 

They perish but thou remainest. 

The mind rendereth them and scattereth them, 
And the place of them shall be no more known.” 

“Serve not the idols of Egypt, 

And let not the senses be thy taskmasters. 

The soul passes from form to form 

And the mansions of her pilgrimage are many. 

He who will do the Will of God 

Shall know the Doctrine.” 


XV 

THE CHRIST LOGOS 


The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: 

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: 

The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. 
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. 

—Psalm 19:7-8-9. 


M AN, like the life around him, is a going-on 
process, never finished, one action leading 
on to another, one experience begetting another. 
It is human to wish to finish things, to have a 
finished religion, like a finished house or home. 
Yet there is no finish to his growth or becoming. 
The self-revealing soul is ever showing new 
beauty, and yet nature never does the same thing 
twice. Each day, likewise, the Solar Man is 
never the same, always seen in different angles 
and aspects traversing new paths, not the same 
path two days alike. Man's soul is nourished 
in this continual creation, this constant becom¬ 
ing, within a changing word, whose creator 
changes not. 

Man is in touch with all life, all forms, all 
worlds. They conjoin in him and he partici- 
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113 


pates in this life, seen and unseen. He inherits 
and partakes of the Divine mode of life, but 
he knows it not in his earlier evolution. He 
wants to know ahead. It is a curiosity in man, 
to know before, that he may finish things. Yet 
he early discerned a constant going on in nature, 
a constant improvement in creation, according 
to season, and cycle. 

Perceptions were quickened, inference and 
reason strengthened, and authentic insight born. 
Within himself he found the power to interpret 
himself in his changing life, changing in rhythm 
with the moving Logos. The advance was slow. 
Notice the crude materialistic concepts of the 
Babylonians concerning the Solar-Man. Their 
ideas were that planets, suns, and moons were 
gods ruling him disastrously or otherwise. No 
thought here that he was the discerner of him- v 
self, that Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and the other 
planetary powers were in himself. The Jews 
went further in the study of the heavens and 
man, not like the Babylonians, who worshiped 
the starry deities. The Jew had been taught to 
worship one God. “Thou shalt have no other 
gods but me.” During his exile in Egypt the 
Jew had received teachings from an advanced 
priesthood. Much of the Egyptian mysteries is 
embodied in Judaism. It was a wonderful ex- 


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The Solar Logos 


tension of consciousness, from the known to the 
unknown, and was kept sacred and concealed in 
Jewish Kabala, concealed to save the truths from 
the false imaginations of man. 

Imagination is a danger as well as a strength. 
One may scatter the energies of the mind 
through a false imagination. Perception in man 
is first aided by the imagination and grows 
slowly; inference and reason grow yet more 
slowly, while the use of the correct imaging fac¬ 
ulty—true vision and insight—takes many steps, 
many births, many cycles of growth to perfect. 

Traces of Egyptian, Judaistic, Greek, Baby¬ 
lonian thought are seen to parallel Christian 
teachings, festivals, and sacraments. It is not a 
little startling to discover this, but nothing to be 
ashamed of, nothing to be neglected, or tabu. It 
does not belittle Christianity to state that it holds 
symbols, festivals and sacraments of the Past 
from Greek and Egyptian empires.! 

We have freely quoted from the Gnostics al¬ 
ready, to prepare the student for further study 
of the Christ-Logos pictured in the heavens. 
The Greeks taught, like the Hindus, a timeless 
and changeless truth, which could be revealed 
to all after appropriate discipline. This revela¬ 
tion was quite different from the Christian idea 









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The Christ Logos 

of revelation through a person on a given date, 
place, and race. Conflict was the result. Reve¬ 
lation cannot come through another. The Greek 
Gnostics never succeeded in its conquest over the 
man-revelation of the Christians. Paul and_ 
John were of the Greek school and embodied the 
ethics of their writings and philosophy, while 
other writers embodied the ethics of Judaism. 
Many cults prior to the Christian faith leaned to 
the'Gnostics, and others to the Jews, each striv¬ 
ing to teach the worship of the one God; 

Mystic Christianity nurtures these precious 
blossoms of truth, and waits. These truths en¬ 
circled a central truth that the world without 
showed how man should conform with the Di¬ 
vine form or plan and become one with the 
Father. Nature stands for a moral, an ideal 
tendency, and man cannot break what nature 
plans. It is the destiny of the soul of man to 
attain this pearl of great price, this ideal seen 
in the Divine drama of the heavens. 

The Zodiac is divided into three groups, the 
cardinal, fixed, and dual signs. The cardinal, 
Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn portrayed the 
active powers, the driving and vivifying force 
of the Logos. The fixed signs, Taurus, Leo, 
Scorpio, Aquarius, indicate a steadfastness, re¬ 
pose and persistence of the Logos. The dual 



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The Solar Logos 


signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces, relate 
to the adaptability and harmonize the lower-self 
to the higher. This is the beginning of astral 
science. 

There are four signs in each of these groups 
representing the four elements, fire, earth, air, 
and water, also called the Four Gospelers. 
Matthew is the sign of Taurus, the earthy plane 
of the cosmos, the Ox, in principle it stands for 
the fulfilling of the law of growth-physical. 
The man of light or the Christ, obeys all the 
laws harmonious to his physical being. Mat¬ 
thew’s Gospel emphasizes the direct line of gen¬ 
eration carefully. “I will put my laws into their 
minds and write them in their hearts.” The law 
of man’s growth is inseparable from the uni¬ 
verse, “as above, so below.” 

The next Gospeler is Mark, “the shining 
one,” the fixed sign of Leo, the Lion, the home 
of the Sun. Leo is a sign, mental and rational. 
The ideal is to shine or govern. The doctrinal 
nature and works of the Christ-man are carefully 
put forth in the Gospel of Markus, the minister 
of the hidden fire and blood. 

Luke represents Scorpio, the plane of the soul 
expressing intuitional powers, and the spiritual 
parentage of Christ is greatly emphasized in a 
conversational affectionate note. Scorpio in the 


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117 


old Egyptian Dendera was represented by the 
eagle in upward flight. 

The next Gospeler is John, deeply mystical, 
universal, and spiritual. John the Divine, the 
Revelator, is Aquarius, the angel-faced man. 

So we have the Ox, the Lion, the Eagle, and 
the Waterman, the four natures ideographed in 
the Sphinx (Gr. Sphingo=to join) of Egypt. 

The Sphinx opens up a little of the book of 
the Solar-man. It is the joining together of the 
four natures, the head of a man, the body of an 
ox, the wings of the eagle, and the claws of the 
lion. “And the first beast was like a lion, and 
the second beast was like a cow, and the third 
beast had the face of a man, and the fourth beast 
like a flying eagle.”—Ez. I, 10; Dan. VII, 4; 
Rev. IV, 7. 

The Zodiac esoterically is divided into three 
books of four signs each. The first book is called 
the Redeemer or His First Coming, the An¬ 
nouncement or prophecy of the Promised Seed, 
corresponding to the sign of Virgo, an earthy, 
physical sign. His work (grace) is under Libra, 
a sign of art, love, and beauty. His conflict 
comes under Scorpio, and the fulfilling of his 
prophecy under the sign Sagittarius. 

The second book is The Redeemed, the work 
and results of the Light of the Christ, and is in- 


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dicated by the sign Capricorn, denoting the 
prophecy of deliverance; Aquarius, the sign 
next to Capricorn, denotes the results of work 
bestowed; Pisces denotes the work enjoyed, 
while Aries denotes the prophesied deliverance 
or the fulfilling of the Law. 

The third book is the Redeemer’s second com¬ 
ing, from Taurus to Leo, or April to August, a 
period in the heavens when the Sun makes his 
exaltation. Taurus denotes the prophecy of 
coming judgment; Gemini, His reign of glory; 
Cancer, the Redeemer's possession in safety; 
and Leo, the exaltation of the Sun in the heavens, 
denotes the prophecy of triumph fulfilled. 

Thus we have a round from the Virgin, Virgo, 
to the royal kingly Leo. We still further have 
another division of the Zodiac, each book has 
four chapters of three constellations or decans. 
Thus we have thirty-six constellations with 
twelve signs, or forty-eight in all. This is the 
“speech' 1 they “utter, 1 ' the “Knowledge 11 they 
show “forth. 11 

“There is no speech nor language where their 
voice is not heard. Their line is gone out 
through all the earth, and their words to the 
end of the world.”—Psalm XIX, 1-6. * 

Life is a mystery which demands the highest 



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119 


reason and the deepest faith to comprehend. We 
are all in some place in the Zodiac, reading one 
of the three books, storing up memories of In¬ 
finite Law. 


XVI 

THE CROSS 


Today thou shalt be with me in paradise. 

—Luke XXIII, 43. 

How he was caught up in paradise and heard un¬ 
speakable words, which it is not lawful to utter. 

—II Cor. XII, 4. 

To him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the tree 
of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 

— Rev. II, 7. 

B IBLICAL statements have three meanings 
which can be communicated orally or by 
symbol. A fourth exists, gained by a method of 
inner life known to the trained mystic. The 
four meanings are concealed in the Word Para¬ 
dise, which word represents the three planes of 
involution of the archetypal world. It also rep¬ 
resents Eden, a word denoting pleasure and de¬ 
light, everywhere the pleasure received from the 
overshadowing power of the Elohim, grafting 
and planting the germs prepared that the soul 
of man should be made upright, perfect, and 
erect. Eden and Paradise really mean a pre¬ 
pared garden for the soul, in which it should 
enjoy the Divine activities. Paradise is made 
up from the letters P-R-D-S. 

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121 


1. PASHUT, the material or exoteric reli¬ 
gion made up of blind illusions of the material 
world and senses. The first five books of the 
Bible, the Pentateuch, are written in this sense, 
hence its difficulty of interpretation. 

2. REMMEZ, an advanced step, using alle¬ 
gory and partly veiled statements. 

3. DERESH, a higher step in understand¬ 
ing with a fuller interpretation of the hiero¬ 
glyphs, allegories and symbols. 

4. SOD, the fourth letter in paradise, was 
not communicated orally but gained only by 
souls in the loftiest state of contemplation. 

The soul passes in experience through these 
four stages of growth until it ascends to the 
Father. The soul has to learn at each step of 
unfoldment that each material form in the vis¬ 
ible universe is the expression of a concrete spir¬ 
itual force, all going on and linked together— 
suns, planets, worlds. 

Man moves through the symbolical creative 
week, step by step, day by day, and by yom and 
cycle. The soul progressing through these gra¬ 
dations receives many names, Adam, Noah, 
Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Jesus. The 
typical life of the last named soul, Jesus, repeats 
the principal features of each of the foregoing 



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The Solar Logos 


characters. The allegory in the Arst chapter of 
Genesis typifies in symbol the soul moving on to 
its fullness, a perfect man created in the image 
of God. 

The seventh day God rests and man rests in 
that seventh day when he shall have conquered 
ignorance, sin and death, when his will joins the 
Divine will and he ascends in consciousness unto 
the Father. The passion, crucifixion, resurrec¬ 
tion, and ascension is the history of every soul. 
It is taught in the Solar-Man. It was taught in 
the colleges of sacred mysteries under the char¬ 
acters Osiris, Mithras, Zoroaster, Krishna, or 
Buddha. The step of each soul is the same, 
which is the spiritualization of matter until the 
body and its appetites respond to the will of the 
Higher-self and come under control of that self. 

The soul feeling the need of a constant pro¬ 
gression conquers and subdues matter, symbol¬ 
ized by the Cross. The four great steps toward 
perfection are four-fold in nature, four-fold in 
allegorical Scriptures, and four-fold in the Cross 
of the heavens, as well as four-fold in Paradise. 
Four means a finished action. The four rivers 
of Eden are the four physical functions of the 
body, the first of which is called Pison, to over¬ 
flow, a Hebrew word really meaning circulation. 
The second river is Gihon, a word meaning that 


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123 


which bursts forth into activity, and describes 
the breathing of the soul in its physical tene¬ 
ment. 

The third river, Hiddekel, means constant 
moving and describes digestion. 

While the fourth river denotes mingling and 
weaving together; propagation. 

This story of Eden conceals the working of 
the soul in its physical growth. It comes under 
the meaning of Pashut, the first letter of the 
mystic Paradise, and represents the soul in ma¬ 
terial matter with its exoteric and material be¬ 
liefs. The four rivers have their one source in 
God. To give this teaching in its full meaning 
would be confusing—“For they are as foolish¬ 
ness unto him.” 

When the spirit, which represents energy and 
will, is withdrawn from matter it ceases to exist. 
Four is the mystic number of the Cross, signify¬ 
ing a redemptive process in man as well as in the 
macrocosm. Through the movements of the Sun 
in the heavens, or better, the earth around the 
Sun, we have the four seasons. This redemption 
in matter is called the Cross. The process of 
carrying the Cross is taught as the shedding of 
blood, not the shedding or physical pouring out, 
for that would be a superstition, or at least an 
interpretation after Pashut. Crucifixion is nec- 



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essary, for it is the Word of God to man that he 
must redeem, number, and name the animals in 
him. 

The primitive man feels in a dumb, anima- 
bruta fashion, that he is alienated from the full 
powers of his soul for a time and is ready to 
atone in his simple way by the shedding of blood, 
flagellations and physical punishments. The 
shedding of blood was commanded as a neces¬ 
sary sacrifice among the Jews. 

It is the blood that maketh an atonement of the soul. 

—Lev. XVII, 11. 

'Phis is my blood of the New Testament, which is 
shed for many for the remission of sins. 

— Matt. XXVI, 28. 

Without the shedding of blood there is no remission. 

It was necessary that the pattern of things in the heavens 
should be purified by these. 

— Heb. IX, 22-23. 

Let us now define the shedding of blood a 
little in advance of its physical meaning, or 
under Remmez. Just as the Sun of the heavens 
throws its light and life or spreads its power unto 
all alike, so does the spirit of the perfected man 
radiate spiritual power and rhythm. 

What is the meaning of the shedding of 
blood? Blood—Leo, the home of the Sun or 
light, is known in Hebrew by the word dahm, 
meaning to be red, Adamic, to sparkle and shine. 
Blood also means spirit power manifest. 


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125 

To shed blood in Hebrew comes under the 
word sahpach and means to spread out, to pour 
out, what? The spirit and power manifest. It 
is the blood that makes atonement for the soul, 
the soul must free its power by shedding or 
spreading out its spiritual power, thus making 
its atonement. 

Atonement in Hebrew is kahphar, or salach, 
signifying to lift up, to unfold, to make a change 
or reconciliation, to bring an altered condition. 

Without the pouring out of the spirit and 
power there is no changed condition nor forgive¬ 
ness, no remission of sins. 

Sin in Hebrew, is chattah, and in Greek, 
hamartia, signifying a missing or deviation from 
the path, also a voluntary or involuntary failure 
to comply or respond to the Divine law and 
order. In the unfinished state of man he thinks 
of himself, he fails to see that life is giving and 
not always receiving, he fails to pour out the 
spirit of forgiveness, the spirit of love and 
power, and so lacks soul growth and develop¬ 
ment. The Christ-man pours out his life to heal 
such a sinner. He knows the path of infirmities 
and is crucified until these principles are fixed 
and abide in the skull or the head. To crucify 
is to set and fix in the tree of life the over-shad¬ 
owing spirit. This fixing or setting takes place 


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The Solar Logos 


between two thieves, the physical and the intel¬ 
lectual natures, which have “stolen the powers” 
and have not acknowledged the Creator, from 
whom this power was given. 

When the thief, Mercury or intellect, realizes 
it is in the presence of a higher power, it ex¬ 
claims, “Lord, remember me when thou comest 
into thy kingdom.” The answer is quick: “This 
day thou shalt be with me in paradise.” 

It is ever true when a prayer ascends from a 
soul, the Christ in the soul responds. “Take 
no anxious thought for the morrow,” then, for 
God works through us. To know God is to know 
his law and we have liberty in this law. To 
forgive, or pour out the spirit of Christ, is to 
set at liberty certain powers which are more or 
less submerged. It requires our voluntary effort 
at all times to work with the universal Father. 
Our evolution is a Divine necessity. Every 
fully-begotten soul exclaims, “I have come to 
fulfill the law.” The mirrored universe is re¬ 
flected in such a quiet, Christ-like heart. “That 
Self am I,” says Buddha. 

“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, 
But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn: 

The Cross on Golgotha thou look’st to in vain, 

Unless within thyself it be set up again.” 

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— Scheffler. 


The Cross 


127 


From Adam to Jesus is a triple initiation, 
natural, human, and divine. Man’s divinity 
is clothed in flesh and his mind attached to things 
of flesh and form. As the human passions sub¬ 
side he gains a knowledge of substance, Divine 
in operation. He drops the appeal to sense and 
ministers and attends to the intuitions of his soul. 
The Christ-man knows the path that others 
tread, being a man of all experiences, of many 
sorrows, and like a savior is every ready to help 
the transgressor whose way is hard. Various are 
the gradations of being, some sleeping and rest¬ 
ing in the animal natural pleasures, others ad¬ 
vancing in reason and knowledge, while yet 
others have awakened to the vital and eternal 
principles of the soul. 

“It is useless to tie oneself to the physical 
symbol of a cross. The Stauros (Cross) in its 
true self is a living idea, a reality or root-prin¬ 
ciple. It is the principle of separation and limit, 
dividing entity from non-entity, being from non- 
being, perfection from imperfection, fullness or 
sufficiency from deficiency or insufficiency— 
Light from Darkness. It is that which causes 
all opposites. At the same time it shares in all 
opposites for it is the immediate emanation of 
the Father Himself, and therefore unites while 
separating. It is, therefore, the principle of 


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The Solar Logos 


participation or sharing in both the Fullness and 
the Deficiency. Finally, it is the Stock or Pillar 
as that which ‘has stood, stands and will stand’ 
—the principle of immobility, as the energy of 
the Father in His aspect of the supreme Indi¬ 
viduality that changes not, because he is Lord 
of the ever-changing.” 

Such is the excellent master-idea given by Mr. 
G. R. S. Mead in his splendid translation and 
interpretation of the Gnostic crucifixion. 

The Cross of Calvary is an outward and vis¬ 
ible sign of a concealed or cosmic cross. Cal¬ 
vary or Golgotha means the skull or the head 
and is equal to the organic fixing and setting up 
in the head. “In the beginning God said, let 
there be light,” and the word “beginning” in 
Hebrew is BERASHITH or head, and in the 
perfect man the light is fixed in the head or 
crucified, meaning crossed in the head. 

The cosmic cross in the heavens has been vari¬ 
ously pictured. In our frontispiece it is as a 
pillar crossed by a beam with a circle of light 
upon it, and a cross within a cross in that circle 
surmounted by a cross. This is the gnostic cross 
or the four crosses in one. 

“In the beginning was the Word” (Ordering 
Power). In the head is the ordering power or 


The Cross 129 

light, finished in the perfect man whose name is 
Jesus. 

The story of the Cross must be ideally under¬ 
stood, the religious student must have an ideally 
personal religion after the most perfect ideal he 
can frame. It must be an ideal to satisfy the 
head and heart, soul and spirit, and it must save 
from sin, ignorance, fear and anxiety, and place 
above time and space. Religious truths cannot 
be changed for they are not dependent on action 
and time. We test a religious truth when we can 
turn to it in moments of stress and strain and it 
shall become an immediate help. 

The Christ is the conjunction of the human 
and Divine consciousness, and this consciousness 
then turns water into wine, the first miracle, or 
the unconscious into the conscious. He can give 
to the understanding joy, where once was deaf¬ 
ness. He can bring the dead to life in the 
twinkling of an eye, that is, he can bring life 
where deadness was, through the perception of 
spiritual truth. These gnostic truths or gospels 
are a mystic act, not of one person or a person, 
but denoting the spiritual possibility in mankind. 
To believe them literally is to miss their spir¬ 
itual import. 


XVII 


THE SPIRITUAL HOROSCOPE (A 

All things in Heaven and in Earth are of God, both 
the Invisible and the Visible. 

Such as is the Invisible is the Visible also; for there is 
no impassable bound between Spirit and Matter. 

Matter is Spirit made exteriorly cognizable by the 
force of the Divine IVord. 

—The Higher Alchemy. 


N ATURE is the great fecundating mother, 
carrying the thought of God in all her crea¬ 
tions. She shows the Incarnating Mind preced¬ 
ing every form, designing and planning atoms. 
Her Great Work assists man in ever eternizing 
his individuality. The soul passes through many 
bodies, ever adding something to the individu¬ 
ality, laboring in the physical man, the intel¬ 
lectual man, and the spiritual man. Taking up 
higher levels of consciousness, storing up experi¬ 
ences, lessons and precepts, all bring it nearer to 
the Good, nearer to Divinity. 

Instinctively the soul feels it must cling to the 
Supplier of being, for there is in each soul the 
undeveloped good which needs development. 
We forget that God is within and can be called 


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The Spiritual Horoscope 131 

upon for help, strength, and understanding, and 
there is no failure of response. 

Opportunities are given in each birth to work 
out its hopes and destiny. These opportunities 
are timed and measured. The soul powers are 
gauged, and the spiritual horoscope, when 
clearly interpreted, tells of these opportunities 
and hopes, tells how far the physical and mental 
wills operate, how free is the will. In the phys¬ 
ical birth the soul is united to the pure in mat¬ 
ter, overshadowed by the spiritual soul of the 
universe. This overshadowing is like a current 
which passes around the body of man through 
the finer body termed the aura. This current 
of life is keyed to run through a given cycle. 

During the interuterine period before its 
physical birth, the entire history of the soul and 
its relation to nature, form, or planet, and all the 
gradations of the animal world, are briefly and 
incredibly epitomized. It enters its life with a 
sum-total of all planes of consciousness gone be¬ 
fore. What the soul will do with these many 
planes of knowledge, how they may be used or 
accelerated, how certain cross activities may be 
lessened, and the better activities quickened, con¬ 
stitute the basis of judgment for interpreting a 
horoscope. 

The birth is pictured plainly in the heavenly 


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The Solar Logos 


mirror. How far the soul has passed from in¬ 
nocence to virtue, where is it in the conflict of 
life? Life is a conflict, for no step is made up¬ 
ward toward conscious immortality without an 
effort of the will, a crossing of the lower that the 
higher may live, and a sacrifice of the higher 
that the lower may live. 

Man is not a fallen angel, he is a risen man. 
The human spirit conquering every step through 
vast geological periods, shows a divinity within 
urging it on and on to conscious immortality. 

The intellectual powers of man were incon¬ 
ceivable in the animal, but the spiritual powers 
in man are just as inconceivable to the physical 
man, and the mystical interpretation of the soul 
in human embodiments is baffling to the scientist 
who seeks to explain all by scientific methods 
without the emotions and love of the soul. 

The soul is esoterically feminine, receiving 
engraftments at different times, in different cy¬ 
cles or days, until it is consciously transformed 
in the image of His glory. 

How far has the soul come into the chastity 
of flesh away from unbridled lewdness, or how 
does Venus play with the emotions, the love? Is 
she linked feebly to the planes of sense? Does 
she show art, music, or the glories of inspira¬ 
tion? 


The Spiritual Horoscope 133 

Our answer is: See to the measure of Venus, 
her position, mansion, decan, degree, and aspects 
to the other operating planets and zodiacal 
points held at birth. 

Has meekness displaced anger (Mars)? or 
wisdom checked earthy cunning (Jupiter)? Is 
Mercury yet a petty thief or is he stealing the 
shafts of Apollo, or has he become a ready mes¬ 
senger for the gods of knowledge? 

Examine the color of the soul’s aura with re¬ 
spect, say, to Saturn. Is the wave of dull gray? 
Then selfishness abounds and charity suffers. 
Has the soul come into its own insight (Uranus) ? 
Is it unaware of its universality (Neptune) or 
yet plays with the flowers of pomp, conceit, and 
petty vanities? If she is still wandering on the 
wayside engrossed in her vanities, she will ex¬ 
perience in her earth body vain longings that 
cannot be satisfied until pride becomes a wor¬ 
shiper. 

How pregnant, we may ask, is the soul in its 
Divine capacities? What habits, ideals, what 
character has it acquired that it can “sit and rule 
the stars”? Is it buffeted by adverse planetary 
storms, or can it dominate the despotism of mat¬ 
ter above and below? Is it the humble pos¬ 
sessor of holy powers, endowed with perpetual 


134 


The Solar Logos 


revelation, interpreting and using all streams of 
power from the one great river of life? 

Spiritual correspondences between the macro- 
cosmic and microcosmic man show that while 
the thinking, objective principle in the human 
embryo is obscured in the womb, the soul re¬ 
sponds to its own light guided by celestial law. 
All her past memories are quickened, there being 
no physical form of flesh, blood and bone to at¬ 
tract her from the celestial law. 

The first month of the incarnation of the 
embryo comes under Saturn. It is the plasmic 
period, and Saturn, the sixth planet, brings into 
play and guidance other planetary waves. 
Saturn modifies the Divine impulsion of the soul 
as it involves itself in primary matter, which is 
an arrest or modification of the incoming force. 
It is put into a pause and partial slumber. Its 
vibration is lowered. 

The second month is the amnionic period. 
Under the waves of Jupiter is this veil woven. 

The limbal growth falls under Mars during 
the third month; the quickening fourth month 
under the Sun. 

The fifth month reveals the sex distinction 
under Venus, and the brain under Mercury, the 
sixth month. 




The Spiritual Horoscope 135 

The Moon has sway over precocious births 
during the seventh month. 

The eighth month is under abortive Saturn 
again. Eight means death and change, a new 
cycle of power is engrafted upon the soul, har¬ 
monizing the preceding planetary waves. 

The normal birth comes under Jupiter. We 
have given a certain order, different from the 
astronomical order of the planets. This order 
rules the different decans of the Zodiac, begin¬ 
ning with Mars in Aries, as follows: Mars, 
Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter. 
Venus makes her transits across the Sun in dif¬ 
ferent and irregular periods and she crosses the 
orb in the same order of days as just given, be¬ 
ginning with Mars, Mardi (^), Dimanche 
(O), Vendredi (2), Mercredi ($), Lundi 
(2>),Samedi (^),Jeudi (^). These are the 
planetary names of the days of the week in 
French; or Tuesday, Sunday, Friday, Wednes¬ 
day, Monday, Saturday, Thursday. She never 
breaks this order of transit—a peculiar celestial 
secret of Venus. The planetary cycles of thirty- 
six years and the cyclic years are given in the 
same order. 

The first decan of the Zodiac begins, we say, 
with Mars and the last decan of Pisces closes 
with Mars. The world of motion begins with 


136 


The Solar Logos 

Mars and the world of death ends in a spiritual 
motion of Mars. For this reason we should not 
give one common interpretation to a sign as there 
are three distinct interpretations according to 
the decan of each sign. These decans shade or 
temper the various gradations of vibrations that 
all modes of life may breathe and feel the energy 
of God. 

Man changes his breathing every two hours 
or when a new sign ascends. His circulation re¬ 
ceives new magnetic currents according to his 
harmony with sign, decan, or degree. 

Our next step to consider in the correspond¬ 
ences of the macrocosm and the microcosm, is 
the major spiritual meaning of each sign. Un¬ 
less we have this meaning, little or no interpre¬ 
tation can be given concerning the spiritual 
values of the horoscope. Let me briefly enu¬ 
merate them as follows: 

1. Aries is the home of consciousness 
(head.) 

2. Taurus (throat, voice), motion through 
love. 

3. Gemini (arms—activities), the thought 
substance moved on into 

4. Cancer (breasts and the breath), chang¬ 
ing and renewing. 


The Spiritual Horoscope 137 

5. Leo (the blood—heart), which feeds 

6. Virgo (the organ of form), through 
which, 

7. Libra (the reins), sex is generated, and 
desire of 

8. Scorpio (sex), in activity by which 
thought is carried on to 

9. Sagittarius (thighs), thought, stamping 

10. Capricorn (knees) with individuality, 
which in action is 

11. Aquarius (calves), the soul which sends 
forth its power according to its associa¬ 
tion as 

12. Pisces (feet), will, understanding, Peter, 
The Rock. 

In this finished interpretation we have the 
alphabet of the creative spiritual principles in 
cosmic Divine relation with each other, spelling 
out the destiny and the experiences of an incom¬ 
ing soul. 

Each soul is intelligence shining through the 
body. It is a spiritual force also which must 
submit to measurement and time. Intelligence, 
thought, and form, therefore, are submitted to a 
geometrical relation. 

The student will understand better the rela¬ 
tion of these principles to each other by a study 


138 The Solar Logos 

of the houses or mansions in which these prin¬ 
ciples are excited into action, so a statement of a 
few geometrical measurements will aid. The 
good and harmonious angles are termed sextile 
or sixty degrees—two signs apart; and trine or 
one hundred-twenty degrees—four signs apart; 
while the evil or cross angles are denoted chiefly 
by the square or ninety degrees, and the opposi¬ 
tion one hundred-eighty degrees. The chief 
measurements are the triangle and the square. 
The triangle indicates a harmony between the 
spirit, soul and body, while the square and oppo¬ 
sition refer to matter which opposes the action 
either of soul or spirit, and so, suffering ensues. 
The good angles tell of that which is redeemed 
and harmonized between soul, body and spirit, 
that which is conquered; the evil, so-called, re¬ 
fers to that which has to be redeemed and ex¬ 
perienced, that which has to be met in conflict. 

Time and space are introduced now while the 
soul makes its sojourn in matter. The measure¬ 
ments of the horoscope, twelve in number, are „ 
called mansions, domiciles, or houses. Imagine 
a circle divided into two by a horizontal diam¬ 
eter and each segment divided into six houses, 
the upper six houses represent the spiritual, 
masculine and invisible activities of the soul, 
while the six lower houses correspond to the 



The Spiritual Horoscope 139 

multitudinous physical matters or the feminine 
visible part of the horoscope. 

Keeping the two divisions of the circle in 
mind, the upper half represents the unmanifest 
Logos; Wisdom; the Father; the uncreate: 
while the lower half of the circle would repre¬ 
sent the create; the Mother; the reflected wis¬ 
dom of the Father; nature; the seen, or manifest. 

Immediately below the horizon in the East 
we have the first mansion covering about thirty 
degrees, while above the horizon thirty degrees 
would be the twelfth mansion, ruling the will. 

The four points of the circle would represent 
the four principal activities of the seen and the 
unseen. 

The first house corresponds to the form of the 
physical body, the intelligence, idea, or ideal 
made plastic and shining through this physical 

bodyr" *“ 

The second corresponds to the activities, occu¬ 
pations, professions, or motions (Taurus— 
Venus). 

The third corresponds to the objective mind 
and its relation to its environments, relatives; 
the house of transforming, and the house of 
mental creation—literature. 

The fourth house—four meaning end or fin- 




140 


The Solar Logos 


ished action; shows end of life; the midnight of 
the soul; the finish of its psychic and emotional 
currents in a given period. 

The fifth is offspring, blood, children, the 
Gemini, or mind-substance in activity or in sex- 
tile aspect; pleasure. 

The sixth is the house of service, health, form, 
also sickness. Being opposed, as we shall see, by 
the twelfth or will, or the results of the action 
of will, in the present or past life. 

The seventh house is that of law, desire, and 
the union in marriage; the guiding of the soul 
in happiness. The meeting of opposites. 

The eighth is death, or a new cycle; to digest 
or assimilate the experiences of the soul gained 
in its earth life. 

The ninth is the instinctive, god-like principle 
of the soul. Esoterically denoting its sojourn 
with souls discarnate; heaven; the long journey. 

The tenth shows the soul’s individuality; suc¬ 
cess. It is the point of midheaven. It signifies 
honor and dignity; elevation. 

The eleventh denotes the friendships of the 
soul, its love of past attachments; its powers of 
love or hate; the balancing of its hopes, and so 
opposed by the fifth house—pleasure. 

The twelfth house is the mystic house of will, 



The Spiritual Horoscope 141 

free or bound according to its knowledge, aims, 
and desires. It rules Karma, akarma, or vi- 
karma; destiny; secret undoing; and is often re¬ 
ferred to as secret enemies. 

The student must take a further step in this 
Divine art. Each sign is masculine or feminine, 
positive or negative, active or passive, dynamic 
or static. Beginning with Aries as masculine, 
positive. Taurus will be feminine, static: 
Gemini masculine, active, dynamic and so on 
around the Zodiac. 


XVIII 

HEALTH, DISEASE, SERVICE 

It is necessary, in relation to the Mysteries, to distin¬ 
guish between the Unmanifest and the Manifest, and be¬ 
tween the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. These last, 
however, are identical, in that the process of the universal 
and the process of the individual are one. 

—Hermetic Fragment. 


T O know the Christ means to know the work¬ 
ing law of the Logos. It does not mean to 
be simply acquainted with the historical Jesus, 
but to have a true understanding of the spiritual 
germ whose nature spiritualizes the human soul 
in its organized animalisms. The spiritual soul 
has “to order and number" these animalisms and 
thus free the human soul from ignorance and dis¬ 
ease. “Follow thou me" is the command of the 
soul—freed in its light—given to the wander¬ 
ing human intellectual soul. 

The ordering operation of the esoteric prin¬ 
ciples seen in the Solar-Logos makes known how 
man may overcome the maladies of the human 
body. 

It is known that everywhere throughout the 
universe in all forms of life, from the atom to 

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Health, Disease, Service 143 

the mightiest sun, the system of polarity prevails. 

Every cell is conditioned by opposites or con¬ 
trasted properties in opposite parts or directions, 
positive and negative, creative and receptive, at¬ 
tractive and repellent; the opposite houses polar¬ 
ize each other in the horoscope. Every part of 
the living body of the universe responds to this 
law. Every nerve, bone, cell from the gangli¬ 
onic or cerebral brain acts alike in this law. 
Health is a state of true polarity of cell life. 
The ego or supreme ruler communicates to all 
the physical organs like a ruler over its depend¬ 
encies. The lungs, heart, digestive and other or¬ 
gans obey the will or orders received from the 
soul. 

The soul is like Janus, two-faced; sometimes 
it turns to the spirit and sometimes to matter. 
When working in matter we call it often the 
human soul, for it is in this state that animal con¬ 
ditions have to be humanized and subdued. 

The lower human will seeks to evade the 
action of the soul and turns that which was posi¬ 
tive into negative or vice versa. This is the law 
in its simplest statement. The finer outgoing 
currents from the soul are stopped or deflected, 
polarity is changed and inharmony or disease 
appears. 


144 The Solar Logos 

The soul never changes its nature, but the dis¬ 
eases of the body shut off the powers of the soul, 
then the body suffers. The polarity in the cell 
life instinctively seeks aid from the soul, but 
When the human will interferes, then have we 
depolarized cells. 

Health is simply a normal condition of polar¬ 
ity, physiologically speaking. 

To bring the body from disease to health by 
whatever physical means or by mental or spir¬ 
itual means, the result is the same. Health is a 
restored consciousness between the ego or soul 
and the body; if by physical means then the dis¬ 
ease may return in regular cyclic order; if by 
spiritual means the cure is permanent. 

We must not forget the meaning of atonement. 
Between the human mind and the ego must be 
fixed (Stauroo—Cross) in the head (Golgotha 
or Tartarus) some truth that shall bring the 
human from its rebellion and sin into unity. 

Sickness may be set up in the present life or 
in the past life. If it is born in sin, the iniquity 
of which shows its effects in the body at birth, 
“born in sin and shapen in iniquity,” the limita¬ 
tions or suffering may be arrested and an adjust¬ 
ment started in right time and season. 

Sickness, then, may be of two kinds, one relat¬ 
ing to the Past, vikarma or akarma, or it may be 


Health, Disease, Service 145 

a present rebellion and deviation from the soul’s 
promptings. 

A child born deaf, blind, imbecile or of mon¬ 
strous birth—“shapen in iniquity”—cannot 
blame its parents. It has at some time in the 
Past willingly refused to respond to the con¬ 
scious workings of the Logos. It has perverted 
its will after accepting a truth. Such a soul 
entering its physical birth weeps not when de¬ 
void of a sense or when of monstrous birth. It 
accepts its condition instantly, feeling the inte¬ 
rior urge that a debt must be paid “to the utter¬ 
most farthing.” 

Looking on the spiritual horoscope the sixth 
house rules disease, service, or sickness, and the 
house which is opposite to it is the twelfth, rul¬ 
ing the will, karma, and undoing. If the will is 
unruly, disobeying the voice of the soul, sickness 
will be seen in that part of the body indicated 
by the sign of the Zodiac on the cusp of the sixth. 
The nature of the sickness will be described by 
the planet therein. 

Have we not noticed in the Bible the names 
of different organs as liver, reins, stomach or 
bowels designate emotions, desires, the working 
of the mind, describing the lawlessness, sin and 
rebellion to the ways and laws of the soul. Such 



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The Solar Logos 


expressions as “my liver is poured out upon the 
earth,” “my reins shall rejoice,” and “bowels of 
mercy and compassion” are common sayings, de¬ 
scribing psychological conditions in plain physi¬ 
ological terms, and unmistakably hinting to di¬ 
rect connection between the mental and physical 
natures. 

Let us again examine the esoteric meaning of 
the Zodiac. 

Aries is triangular to Sagittarius and Leo, or 
we might say: consciousness, its relation in 
thought to blood. 

Motion (Taurus) to individuality (Capri¬ 
corn) and form (Virgo). 

Substance, soul sex; will, desire, breath. 

Planets likewise have their opposites. The 
cold, unfeeling Saturn opposes Moon—the sym¬ 
pathy and imagination. When these two are in 
conjunction, say in the house of will, twelfth, 
we often have the suicide, suicidal intent and a 
melancholy which paralyzes the will. 

When Moon is weak and afflicted by a weak 
Mercury, the correspondences show a weak in¬ 
tellect and a feeble imagination with the result¬ 
ing imbecile or weak-minded individual. 

So with sight, the orbs Sun and Moon in weak 
signs, weak eyes and blindness. 


Health, Disease, Service 147 

The average student of astrology is aware of 
these afflictions and can detect them at birth, it 
not being necessary to examine the subject bod¬ 
ily, the macrocosm, or solar man reflects these 
conditions at birth. 

There is a truth, a word, which spoken and 
understood, can arrest such maladies, just as 
truly today as in the past. “Understanding is a 
wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the 
instruction of fools is folly.”—Prov. 17-22. 

The normal polarities once disturbed by ill- 
digested truths, the liver is disturbed, there being 
no stability or gravity to affect its healthy func¬ 
tioning. 

We cannot change the position of any planet 
in our horoscope, but we can of our own free¬ 
will choose what phase of any planet we express 
in our life, neither can we avoid being born in¬ 
side the Zodiac. We must make the best of the 
psychological powers in us. 

If the blood is hastened or retarded in passing 
through the liver by unbalanced hilarity or de¬ 
pression, the thinking principle is ill-balanced 
and melancholy, there being no insight, judg¬ 
ment or orderly succession of thought. We 
might easily multiply these examples, all going 
to prove that to determine the nature, cause, and 
relief of disease we can apply the teaching of the 


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The Solar Logos 


archetypes, for there is reflected in the heavens 
the cause of digression, and there, too, is seen the 
manner of atonement, service. 

The sixth mansion of the heavens reveals the 
service to oneself and others, sickness, service re¬ 
tarded, thwarted or neglected means when such 
thoughts are harvested. 

Let such omissions become habitual, chronic 
troubles are set up and death does not remove 
the cause set up, its effects are seen in another 
life as a perverted will, with impaired senses, 
blasted by a cruel destiny—inexplicable, we say. 
No! It is but the effects of previous causes set 
up. A difficult mansion indeed is the twelfth to 
interpret, as the true healer and physician knows. 

Without such knowledge we have guesswork 
in pathology, “new cures'’ daily, heralded broad 
and wide, but without discipline of mind and 
heart and a reliance upon truth these cures avail 
not. New life comes from the soul, the immor¬ 
tal germ full of latent Divine powers. 

Let us pay homage to the soul, the central 
source of all power resting in and like unto the 
One. This power must go forth in word and 
deed to all universally and without question. 
Not only is this true with the individual, but 
also with a nation. 



Health, Disease, Service 149 

Health is due to the past action, disease also. 
The end of an action may be in the far future. 
We may be enjoying the effects of previous 
actions or suffering from the same. 

Sir Oliver Lodge in an address before the 
British Association at Cardiff, once said: “If 
once we grasp the idea that past and future may 
be actually existing, we can recognize that they 
may have a controlling influence on all present 
action; and that the two together may constitute 
the higher plane or totality of things, after 
which, as it seems to me, we are impelled to 
seek, in connection with the directing of force or 
determinism, the action of living beings con¬ 
sciously directed to a definite and preconceived 
end.” 

This is added to by Professor Winchell in his 
“Cycle of Matter,” when he says: “This con¬ 
tinuity and unity of history repeat themselves 
before our eyes in all conceivable stages of prog¬ 
ress. The phenomena furnish us with the 
grounds for the generalization of two laws 
which are truly principles of scientific divina¬ 
tion , by which alone the human mind penetrates 
the sealed records of the past and the unopened 
pages of the future. The first of these is the law 
of Evolution, or, to phrase it for our purpose, 


150 


The Solar Logos 


the law of correlated successiveness or organized 
history in the individual, illustrated in the 
changing phases of every single maturing sys¬ 
tem of results. These thoughts summon into our 
immediate presence the measureless past and the 
measureless future of material history. They 
seem almost to open vistas through infinity, and 
to endow the human intellect with an existence 
and a vision exempt from the limitations of time 
and space and finite causation, and to lift it to¬ 
ward a sublime apprehension of the supreme In¬ 
telligence, whose dwelling-place is Eternity.” 

Our own Emerson says: “The Idealist views 
the world in God. He sees the whole circle of 
events, of persons and things, not as painfully 
accumulated, atom by atom, act after act, in an 
age creeping past, but as one vast scene, painted 
on the instant eternity by the hand of God, for 
the eternal contemplation of the human soulT 


XIX 

CANTATE DOMINO 


I will sing unto the Lord a new song. — Psalms. 

W E are qualified by nature to know God 
and we are admonished to love our fel¬ 
low men. We must lay hold of beauty in wor¬ 
ship that we may be more receptive to ideals or 
we cannot happily work with the laws of our 
own being. Religious worship is found to be 
necessary to man’s development and evolution. 
Every step in life is but the quickening of the 
inborn life of the soul. We see this in the de¬ 
velopment of the foetus from conception to birth 
which seems like a miracle, first the heart and 
brain of a fish, next the reptile, bird, beast and 
man. No miracle is this but the opening out of 
memories and lessons learned from the past. 

Some of these memories have taken myriads 
of years to perfect and register, so that the very 
unfoldment of these memories in blood and tis¬ 
sue seems automatic almost. Each step is an 
unfoldment of the Elohim whose nature is God, 
and man is by nature, we say, qualified to know 
God. 


151 


152 


The Solar Logos 


Whatever process of thought, or reason or 
logic we may use in solving our religious prob¬ 
lems, we must acknowledge there is always some¬ 
thing self-transcending our thought, a reaching 
out to, a longing for God. It is inherent in the 
soul that it must express itself and the rational 
mind feels the urge. 

The earth incarnations of the soul demand 
time and space for experiences, and the senses 
seem to see nothing but detached and separate 
movements which fail to refer one thing to an¬ 
other, one experience to another, one birth to an¬ 
other. But the world is a unity of movement in 
all its expressions, however small or great, and 
all life and experiences are related, and nothing 
is separate. 

In the earlier life of the soul when partially 
united to the animal soul, an instinctive power to 
establish itself and refashion its nature onward 
and upward was distinctly felt. We today fail 
to follow its leading. We have not that quicken¬ 
ing faith. We seem to have forgotten the use 
of that power, yet, that creating guiding influ¬ 
ence is here now as in the days of the Golden 
Age. 

We fall into a habit of thought which tries to 
make all our experiences harmonize, finished 
and perfect in a short duration of time—one lit- 


Contate Domino 153 

tie physical life. We needs must hurry this per¬ 
fection with the idea of living on forever in a 
perfect state. It is the finite mind again which 
wants to finish, and if we fail to perfect or reach 
that heaven in the short space of one earth life? 
Are all the events and experiences in life forever 
lost? Are they inaccessible and useless? No, 
He purifies in his Aeonic fires of love and “He 
mixes with the sweet influence of the Pleiades” 
all the experiences and events that they may be 
born again in purity and power to move on with 
the Divine urge. 

The clean, true experiences of humanity enter 
the Ark and are sustained to again come back on 
the “dry land” and continue. Perfection urges 
itself into the structure of the spirit, its motions 
and law. There is a shadow of memories which 
the errors of the past make known to us as a dic¬ 
tate of conscience. But the good and the true 
are known as right intuition which sympathizes 
with all the outer understandings of man. 

We ask, why not remember the Past with all 
its memories to guide us in the present, is it pos¬ 
sible? Yes, beauty and truth are the levels we 
must reach before the apprehending soul reveals 
the features of the Past, and we cannot reach 
these levels of beauty and truth until we think 
in universal and act as a god toward our fellow 
men. 


154 


The Solar Logos 


It is well to rid the mind of idle curiosity of 
who was I? The very question doubts the provi¬ 
dence which guides the soul in its history of 
active experiences. Rather let us identify our¬ 
selves with the real ego or I who revels in truth 
and beauty and is waiting only to express it when 
these lesser Fs are put aside; they are meant to 
be forgotten, the soul searches for fruits rather 
than dead leaves. 

In the secret place of the soul dwells the 
Divine Immanence and all values, so called, 
whether social, political, or religious, which have 
no consciousness of this Divine Immanence are 
void, wasteful, and cumbersome. “Why cum- 
bereth it the ground?” says the Master when 
speaking of the fruitless fig. The fig tree is the 
symbol of the Divine woman or the receptive 
soul in man. Tt is the fruit which blossoms in¬ 
teriorly. 

The Past is in the Now, says the soul in its 
silences and nothing is lost from the past, for it is 
merged into the now. Nations, we are fond of 
saying, fall, Greece is no more, Rome is fallen, 
the Golden Age of India is but a legend. We 
could better say those great nations with their 
truths, dialectics, and aspirations are absorbed in 
the history of our present humanity, guiding 


Contate Domino 


155 


their actions, laws, and judgments. As with’ the 
soul of a nation, so similarly is the history of the 
soul of man. Those races upon whose religious 
history we love to dwell, are not forgetful of the 
“spacious firmament on high.” They constantly 
remind us of it, whether in the heroics of drama, 
in sculpture, or in their religions. The stars, 
motions, and the majesty of the universe, held a 
sacred place in their bibles and poetry. The 
firmament to them was full of spiritual sugges¬ 
tions which stimulated a demand to worship at 
different times and seasons. 

There is the same felt need today. We long 
for unity with the Greater Being of the universe. 
We cannot feel at home and content when taken 
out of the oneness, for there is a lack of rever¬ 
ence and worship. Worship is completed only 
with the feeling of the whole. 

Our religious faith has been fettered by arti- J 
ficial canons which were fostered by hearsay and 
traditions, and have only a small substratum of 
fact, so little as to make it difficult to separate 
the real from the imaginary. We have happily 
now a strict sense of scrutiny and examine his¬ 
torical evidence without unreasonable skepti¬ 
cism. We may exercise, though, a feeling of re¬ 
serve in the new-found facts of modern astrol- 


156 The Solar Logos 

ogia, such reserve is wholesome but it will not 
delay a widening interpretation of the Scrip¬ 
tures, for the search of the Scriptures will go on 
progressing in value as we discover the sources 
of their inspiration were based on the world 
symbol of nature. 

We want no undignified superstitions, but a 
clear vision of the Divine content in nature and 
its interpretation in Holy Writ. 

The human is Divine, and the all-inclusive 
Divine is in the human. This is a concept of 
Reality emphasized in the study of the Solar- 
Logos, for it leads us into prophecy and the 
nature of man’s destiny, and unites all distinc¬ 
tions, making it truly a Catholic faith. 

The young naked soul now clothed with a gar¬ 
ment of God, patterned and seamless, feels the 
care of his tender spirit while listening to the 
voiceless voice. The soul knows that all is well 
and is unafraid. The miracle has come to pass 
that man and God are one. 

“Thou art from of old, O soul of man. 

Yea, thou art from the everlasting.” 

“The Angel of Understanding shall 
Know thee for his elect.” 

“I will remember the words of the Lord, 
Surely I will remember thy wonders.” 


Contate Domino 

“Mercy shall be built up forever: 
Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish 
In the very heavens.” 


“I will sing unto the Lord a new song.” 





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